The problem with Nietzsche...

...is that he is read as an audacious polemicist, writing against the poor and the weak. This way of reading him comes from the perspective of a democratic consciousness (in the way that Nietzsche critiqued it, as being bland and moralising). The contemporary consciousness of this sort thinks that Nietzsche is being wildly transgressive in asserting something odd and unnatural as a goal -- the domination of society by an elite few, in a way that countervenes any sort of "morality".

Actually, I don't read him that way at all. What he is pointing to is that some people are happy with a very little consciousness (and they ought not to be disturbed, much less awakened to a fuller awareness of themselves). Others are different: They simply need more to thrive and feel healthy. These people must be awakened to the fullest sort of consciousness, and start to rule.

So, in a few words, I don't think that Nietzsche was being violently transgressive at all.