Totalitarian extremism is not radicalism but deducing everything to the worst

Evidence

That thought processes characterized by strict self-evident logicality, from which apparently there is no escape, have some connection with loneliness was once noticed by Luther (whose experiences in the phenomena of solitude and loneliness probably were second to no one’s and who once dared to say that “there must be a God because man needs one being whom he can trust”) in a little-known remark on the Bible text “it is not good that man should be alone”: A lonely man, says Luther, “always deduces one thing from the other and thinks everything to the worst.” The famous extremism of totalitarian movements, far from having anything to do with true radicalism, consists indeed in this “thinking everything to the worst,” in this deducing process which always arrives at the worst possible conclusions. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1083

Categorization

• QUESTION: Track how this ‘deducing everything to the worst’ becomes the paranoid logic later Islamophobia readings may reuse — the structure of conspiratorial worst-case inference.
• XREF: connects to: Extremist movements need only one violent adherent to cause catastrophic harm — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 806