A national humiliation on home soil transformed quickly into a manic embrace of defeat

Evidence

I am not sure if I can adequately explain the emotional shift in the crowd during those fifteen minutes, from the second to the fifth goal. This was a journey into the depths of the human heart. Initial dejection quickly transformed into horrified shock, which became stunned disbelief, which quickly transformed into a kind of manic eruption of laughter, with fans cackling in mad delight as they now openly cheered for Germany. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 537

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Calls for Dilma’s impeachment began days after her reelection win — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 551; National identity can ignite from defeat and subjection rather than flourishing. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2259; Militants frame mosque destruction as purifying humiliation and unifying their nation. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 414

Broader Connections

• National identity can ignite from defeat and subjection rather than flourishing. #corroborates (0.92) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2259