Totalitarian loyalty rests on organizational infallibility, not the Leader’s

Evidence

The point of their loyalty is not that they believe the Leader is infallible, but that they are convinced that everybody who commands the instruments of violence with the superior methods of totalitarian organization can become infallible. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 893

Categorization

• XREF: Distinguishes organization-based from personality-based authority — a mechanism for how mass exclusion is organized beyond any single figure.