Definition of "totalitarian middle"

The totalitarian middle (see end of previous post here) consists of those who want to make others obey them but do not have the cajones to go out and personally kill them if they disobey.

They prefer "bourgeois legalism" (votes, laws, judges' rulings, et cetera) as their cover and law enforcement and military organs as their preferred instruments of repression.

(As opposed to the totatalitarian left and totalitarian right, who obviously have no problems getting their hands dirty.)