To get closer to autocracy he’d need better control of one of those two branches.
"democracy is fundamentally not German: it is Jewish" - Hitler
Hitler believed the Jews invented and foisted democracy onto the world. So when he's blaming democracy, he's still blaming the Jews.
> you don't really come to power by blaming hidden minorities
Except he did exactly this, repeatedly and publicly, in his writing, speeches, and policy.
Sure. He pointed a hell of a lot of fingers. He had a special hatred for Jews, yes. He said it publicly, but my point was that it he didn't come to power by solely blaming Jews for everything. The "humiliation" that he felt Germany suffered due to the end of WWI generally played much better.
Hitler believed Germany lost WW1 specifically because they were "stabbed in the back" by the Jews.
Hitler spent far more time blaming Democracy for that, and several missteps in a row really handed it over to him. He despised Jews and blamed them, but you don't really come to power by blaming hidden minorities. He had to first destroy Democracy, which he did, to rousing applause. He convinced everyone that autocracy was the solution. And man, was it fast. As soon as he was Chancellor, they were up and murdering what was left of the minority opposition. It was fast and ugly. And after that, it was ironclad. People should be more worried.