Weimar-era mass politics was hotter yet more institutionalized than today’s

Evidence

Despite his hostility toward the radical left, however, Weber and his opponents remained children of the same age—however hieratic, his plea for vocational intransigence reflected a form of politics that presupposed institutional involvement of the populace. Both Weber and his ideological adversaries thereby shared a vision of political engagement that was markedly more patient and sustained than that which prevails in the twenty-first century. For German Communists and fascists, the personal may well have been political, yet it would not have occurred to them to reduce the latter to the former, and they inhabited a social landscape much deeper and more expansive than the brittle societies in which we live today. The mass politics of Weber’s time was certainly no less heated than our hyperpolitical moment, yet it was more solidly institutionalized. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 56

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that 1919 politics was hotter but more institutionalized parallels the culture-war-saturation point and supportss the diagnosis that saturation without organization is the hyperpolitical novelty.