Supremacist ideals apparently made it possible for people to ignore existential theories in wanting to adopt discriminatory attitudes against those who were considered to be part of a minority. Franco instructed people concerning the damage that the Spanish civilization was undergoing as a consequence of hosting a great deal of individuals who respected and even promoted ideals that challenged the stability of Spanish cultural values. The Franquist regime basically influenced people in thinking that democracy was bad for them because it destroyed everything that they stood for and because it would eventually bring the Spanish society to an end. The writers of this article are inclined to focus more on Franco than on the country's population. The fact that the Spanish were willing to support an unjust regime simply because it assisted their culture played a significant role in destroying Spain's chances of having a democratic future for several decades. Similar to how conditions were in Spain during the early 1930s, a series of other European countries that were likely to become democrat during the decade employed nationalist principles because people in these states were either inspired by developing extremist states like Germany and Italy or simply considered that minorities were vulnerable and thus had to be blamed for most negative experiences they underwent. Bermeo perfectly exemplifies this by revealing a country's anti-democratization process step-by-step. Citizens are disappointed with the fact that their leaders are inefficient and turn to developing extremist thinking in an attempt to help their country recover. The scholar is wrong in categorizing ordinary citizens as innocent individuals who fall victim to the poor conditions that they live in. These people were capable to distinguish between right and wrong and were most likely aware of the fact that they were unethical in deciding to favor extremism. However, they continued...

The fact that individuals who were actually innocent suffered in the process was a mere obstacle for them. Minorities were in most cases victims of majorities in countries that abandoned democracy in favor of extremist ideologies. The masses were generally inclined to do anything in their power in order to install a system that favored them, even if this meant that they had to perform criminal acts against groups that were not necessarily corrupt.
Herbert Kitschelt's "Political Regime Change: Structure and Process-Driven Expanations" promotes the belief that circumstantial factors are decisive in determining a country's positive reception of a particular ideology (Kitschelt, 1028). However, Kitschelt tends to ignore that some individuals might feel compelled to adopt certain attitudes concerning ideologies. Thus, such people are not supportive of dominating ideologies and only accept philosophies as a result of being pressured.

The breakdown of democracy typically occurs when the masses are reluctant to accept their condition and turn to using extremism as a method of destabilizing the balance of power in the country. This has a damaging effect on minorities or on people in the upper classes, as they fall victim to majority groups.

Works cited:

Bermeo, Nancy Gina, "Ordinary People and the Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe"

Capoccia, Giovanni, "Defending democracy: Reactions to political extremism in inter-war Europe" European Journal of Political Research 39: 431 -- 460, 2001.

Kitschelt, Herbert, "Political Regime Change: Structure and Process-Driven Explanations?," The American Political Science Review, 86: 1028-1034, 1992.

Richard, Gunther & Sani, Giacomo & Shabad, Goldie, "Spain after Franco: The Making of a Competitive System"