This is an excellent analogy. Today's young, leftist punks are very similar to the Red Guard thugs of the Cultural Revolution. Except the people who are promoting or enabling them is not the person with the greatest power, the president.
These young thugs are being enabled and excused by the liberal media and academia.
But even a number of liberal academics and media members are finding they're not pure enough for the thugs. They'll find out that after everybody else is destroyed by the nihilist idiots, their necks will be on the chopping block as well.
And if all the superrich liberal gazillionaires like Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg etal think they'll be saved, they're in for a rude shock. The locusts will devour them as well.