Mob leaders weaponized Jews as ideology regardless of Jewish actual importance.

Evidence

If, furthermore, the steady growth of the modern mob—that is, of the déclassés of all classes—produced leaders who, undisturbed by the question of whether the Jews were sufficiently important to be made the focus of a political ideology, repeatedly saw in them the “key to history” and the central cause of all evils, then the previous history of the relationship between Jews and society must contain the elementary indications of the hostile relationship between the mob and the Jews. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 82

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘mob’ as the déclassés of all classes, a central Arendtian concept to carry forward.
• XREF: The claim that a group can be ideologically central while unimportant in reality anticipates arguments about how constructed ‘Others’ function politically regardless of actual population size or power.