Mob attitudes are bourgeois convictions stripped of their hypocrisy

Evidence

In the growing prevalence of mob attitudes and convictions—which were actually the attitudes and convictions of the bourgeoisie cleansed of hypocrisy—those who traditionally hated the bourgeoisie and had voluntarily left respectable society saw only the lack of hypocrisy and respectability, not the content itself. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 793

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that the mob’s worldview is de-hypocrisied bourgeois ideology parallels later arguments about how respectability politics and elite categories persist within putatively anti-elite movements — connects to the reader’s hegemony toolbox. — connects to: Moralistic bourgeois rhetoric can be backed by hidden violence and therefore never trusted — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 459; Respectable segregationism paired capitalism rhetoric with veiled mob violence — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 132