The Mob (n.) is a superfluous, helpless, passive, uprooted, disoriented people who no longer have any clear sense of reality or self-interest because the world they had inhabited has been destroyed by the upheavals of unemployment, inflation, war, and revolution.
A Mob (n.) is approached through the stampeding of its passions, as through a demagogue.
A Mob (n.) is but a collection of individuals, led not by critical reflection but by their unformed passions swayed by whatever winds may blow.
The Mob (n.) is distinct from the masses: only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
The Mob (n.) speaks the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.