They don’t need to be set up at the top. They already are. Some of them will call themselves “middle class”, but that just doesn’t exist. In India, anyone earning living above Rs. 25k a month is already in the top 1℅. Their only point of comparison or aspiration is the billionaires themselves, so, bootlicking is just as common here.
Just like with white supremacists, they are at the top of the social hierarchy already, but also have a victim complex with them being supposedly “threatened” by the minorities. In the US it’s DEI and Critical Race Theory that fascists are against, in India it’s the caste-based reservation system (affirmative action for the oppressed castes and tribes) and whatever small tidbits that are done for women in the name of the government being feminist (but barely) and progressive (like free public buses for women in some cities).
I don’t know who to attribute the quote to but it’s just the classic “resistance feels like oppression for those who’ve been long in the oppressor’s shoes”.
Edit: Also, the caste system doesn’t need to be reimplemented. It never went away. Again I’m drawing the comparison to western politics in case this is someone from the west that’s trying to understand. Slavery was abolished doesn’t mean that there aren’t other ways to practice forced labour and keeping people at the bottom of the hierarchy, right? It’s quite similar here too. There are laws that say untouchability is not supposed to be practiced, but people still use different utensils to serve water for the domestic workers for example. Manual scavenging (the labour of mostly Dalit men cleaning sewers with nil protective equipment) is banned. But it still happens. Every week we see news that a few more people died from the toxic fumes or complications after.
Caste endogamous marriages are still the norm, the jobs and positions are still barely spread out in some cases, not at all in a lot of fields, good education is still a pipe dream for the majority because only the oppressor castes can just purely focus on education with no other care and keep sending their kids to coaching centers to get through the national entrance examinations for the premier public institutions.