This fact nothwithstanding, Hitler and the movement he created remain archetypal examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect. What is the Dunning-Kruger effect you ask? Well, Wikipedia defines it as follows:
The Dunning - Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of those of low ability to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: high-ability individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.
Dunning and Kruger have postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in those of low ability, and external misperception in those of high ability: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."From the point of view of Dunning-Kruger, Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf is particularly telling in terms of his total lack of insight into his own limitations. A budding narcissist, Hitler's recounting of his schooling describes his propensity to argue with adults despite not having yet received his education. 'I think that an inborn talent for speaking now began to develop and take shape during the more or less strenuous arguments which I used to have with my comrades,' he reflects in Chapter 1. ' I had become a juvenile ringleader who learned well and easily at school but was rather difficult to manage.'
Comment: This last point of the article seems to get at the heart of the matter. As we have seen in recent days, the anti-Trump protestors (paid ones nothwithstanding) are being manipulated into a reactionary thrall that would seem to ignore all data, logic and rationality because they lack a great deal of self-awareness and knowledge of the world in which they live. In other words, their thinking and actions are almost entirely emotional in nature, and what they are clearly missing is that their "movement" is, ultimately, a manifestation of the very thing they claim to be fighting against: Fascism. See the SOTT Focus piece: Knowledge and Freedom: Antidote to the rising fascism