I think this passage from Don Watson in Death Sentence sums it up beautifully

"An airhead is no less an airhead for having a command of
grammar, and a liar is no less a liar. Far from it; the
disingenuous, the fatuous and the deceitful are more likely
to make headway if they have perfect grammar on their
side."

so we might say Pauline didn't understand fully her xenophobia, or even that there was a word for it, but Howard was belicose about it, "belicose" then becoming the pedants' flavour of the next month

Hanson and Fear:

Read William Sheridan Allen's, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1930-1935. It provides an account of the town of Thalburg {pop. 10,000, representative of many small rural town in Germany with an emphasis on the 1932/1933 period[despite the title].

The famers who were relatively well of compared with the working class were fearful of loosing theie status as were the shopkeepers in the township. They could see itinerate works living a broken-down army barracks and did not wouild become them. The NAZIs played on this fear at a micro/individual level, wherein the Germany was now unlike the Germany before WWI. Much had been lost and the risk to the middle class owing to external forces such as the Jews.

The book showed that it was not only the macro issue of reparations but also feeding on the fears of mant small communities. A bottom-up fear approach.

Reading Allen's book reminded me of Pauline Hanson's visit to Inverell in NSW. Her tactics and the people's responses were the reminiscent of Thalburg's experience. Fortunately, unlike Hitler, Hanson was able to sustain traction with the greater Australian community.