>More likely he didn't trust democracy

Democracy during Junger's time was not a sure thing. For many, compared to what the Soviets were espousing, it seemed ideologically inferior and its flaws, at the time, were painful. Until the flaws in the Soviet model manifested in ugly ways, many countries in Europe were leaning towards their own models based on the Soviets. It was a near thing and had the Soviets not proved to be such dicks, Europe certainly could have gone the other way. "Aftershocks" by Gunitsky has a very nice chapter on this subject.