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Mencken labeled “the booboisie”? The triumph of “Babbitt” is that we can’t confidently answer that question.

That comment reveals Jack undergoing the opposite of a polishing: He is tarnishing, or delaminating, reverting to his natural lowbrow state and cheerleading for the reactionary booboisie.

Mencken’s booboisie, but to a much higher power of ignorance than even Mencken himself, no slouch when it came to contempt for the common people, could have imagined.

But he was never accepted by the "booboisie."

If he said this he really flattered the "booboisie."