::::::::There are many sources that analyze fascism as a form of "authoritarian" or "totalitarian democracy" - Jacob Talmon describes fascism as totalitarian democracy and wrote an entire book on the subject of totalitarian democracy. Also W. Martini claims that Nazism was a form of "hyper-democracy" in that it bypassed liberal democratic checks and balances to appeal to popular will. Multiple sources state that fascism sought to garner a total constituency of the general will of the nation through various institutions. The only thing that can be said is that it certainly is not conventional democracy as practiced in the Western world based on majority rule, pluralism, and multiparty elections - and the intro already accounts for this.