Both mob and republican minority conducted the Dreyfus struggle outside Parliament
Evidence
The disturbing thing about the Dreyfus Affair is that it was not only the mob which had to work along extraparliamentary lines. The entire minority, fighting as it was for Parliament, democracy, and the republic, was likewise constrained to wage its battle outside the Chamber. The only difference between the two elements was that while the one used the streets, the other resorted to the press and the courts. In other words, the whole of France’s political life during the Dreyfus crisis was carried on outside Parliament. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 329
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Precursor to Arendt’s later point that totalitarian movements operate outside and against parliamentary institutions — connects to the liberalism-crisis literature this text scaffolds.