The JPFO doesn't seem to agree with that analysis. If every time brownshirts had gone on one of their midnight trips to haul somebody off several of them had been killed, the whole thing could have been derailed.
Exactly. A. Sohzhenitzyn, in The Gulag Archipelago, said just what you have posted. He lamented the fact that the Russain people had not resisted when they had a better chance of winning against the "System".
Once the "System" is in place, it is much more difficult to resist.
Never give up your guns! Armed citizens are the best defense against tyranny.