Third Republic scandals created a political class that adopted mob language.

Evidence

The society and the politicians of the Third Republic, its scandals and affairs, had created a new class of déclassés; they could not be expected to fight against their own product; on the contrary, they were to adopt the language and outlook of the mob. Through the army the Jesuits would gain the upper hand over the corrupt civil power and the way would thus be paved for a bloodless coup d’état. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 313

Categorization

• DEFINE: Arendt’s déclassés names the mechanism by which elites produced by scandal-ridden institutions come to mimic their own debased social product.