Hitler wasn't elected and bringing up Hitler here evokes a scenario far more dire than leaving the EU. Your original point was bad and I regret wasting time on it.

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I'm not deflecting. Their best result was something over 35 % (don't remember the exact number) of the votes, and that was in the elections before the ones they supposedly won. Democracy failed not because the "general public is too dumb to vote", it's exactly the opposite. It fails when the ruling class overrides the general public's vote, as they did in the March 1933 elections in Germany.