emy and telling people of what they were already aware. One such are he did this in was the, to him, dreaded specter of Democracy:
Hitler, as always, was masterful in adapting his strategy to his audience. He told them what they were already convinced of, that democracy did not work any better in the area of politics than it did in their business affairs. Democracy, Hitler said, meant replacing genius with a majority; it meant, not the rule of the people, but the role of stupidity, mediocrity, weakness, and inadequacy. It was an absurdity to base economic life on the principle of performance, that is, practically on personal authority, and to deny this authority in politics and to replace it with the law of the greatest number, with democracy. The analogy of political democracy in economic affairs was communism. Only an authoritarian state could guarantee economic freedom, because behind it was the unified will of the nation.
Unlike Mussolini in Italy, Hitler did not
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