The masses stand outside class-based political representation and reflect all classes

Evidence

The masses share with the mob only one characteristic, namely, that both stand outside all social ramifications and normal political representation. The masses do not inherit, as the mob does—albeit in a perverted form—the standards and attitudes of the dominating class, but reflect and somehow pervert the standards and attitudes toward public affairs of all classes. The standards of the mass man were determined not only and not even primarily by the specific class to which he had once belonged, but rather by all-pervasive influences and convictions which were tacitly and inarticulately shared by all classes of society alike. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 752

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional distinction: mob vs. mass, and what defines the ‘mass man’ for the purposes of totalitarian recruitment.
• XREF: This mob/mass distinction is foundational for understanding how Islamophobic mass movements recruit across class lines.