How could Nietzsche the scourge of democracy become its advocate?

Mencken in his introduction to his translation of The Antichrist, says of Nietzsche:

He was plainly a foe of democracy in all its forms, political, religious and epistemological, and what is worse, his opposition was set forth in terms that were not only extraordinarily penetrating and devastating, but also uncommonly offensive.

There are two democracies. There is the mass, herd, common denominator image of a Kafkaesque aggregation of reified souls lost in anomie.

And there is the highly individualistic notion of democracy as a value lodged in the soul of all persons waiting to be ignted by deeds that affirm the universal value of each living being and the universal rights of all. This is a democracy that Nietzsche was not at pains to affirm.

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