@aral Honestly this is why we dislike the term democracy at this point.
A more accurate term here would be electoralism.
If a population (demos) votes in a fascist government (cracy) is that not, by definition, still democracy? It's a morally bad democracy, but it is democracy.

The issue is with weak electoralism and Liberalism (big L, not attached to a single political party in any one government) that, as you point out, allows for fascists to gain power.