Hannah Arendt, writing at the time of a campaign against non-Jewish labor in Israel says:
“Chauvinism of the Balkan type could use the religious concept of the chosen people and allow its meaning to degenerate into hopeless vulgarity.
I just love the old-timer expression… “Hopeless vulgarity“.
Did she come up with that all by herself? It has a ring to it…
By the way, I regard Ms. Arendt as the most foolish woman to ever misuse long words. Although maybe she has other phrases.