The myth that "Hitler was elected" is a dangerous myth

[Middle-aged Europe]

Well, Hitler was appointed Chancellor because he had been the leader of the largest party in the Reichstag. That set him apart from his two immediate predecessors as Chancellor, Papen and Schleicher, who had been non-partisan independents leading Cabinets consisting mostly of non-partisans without any direct backing from Parliament. Without the NSDAP's electoral successes, nobody would have ever considered appointing Hitler to anything. (And technically, under the Weimar Constitution all Chancellors were appointed by the President instead of being elected.)

[Middle-aged Europe]

I disagree with OP here. Hitler absolutely rose to power due to having the support of a plurality of Germans. This isn't a case of "too much democracy," however. It's a case of "German society was systemically antisemitic and racist and happily voted in Nazism because they wanted it."

Germany was not uniquely anti-Semitic compared to most other European countries nor was anti-Semitism their main appeal to most of their voters (as opposed to a core base of ideologues and true believers).

For some it was a case of "who cares if Hitler is an antisemite, me and my family have been out of a job for three years now (and everything was better when we still had an Emperor)" though.

Which essentially boiled down to: "A dictatorship? What could possibly go wrong?"