It's hard to get a fish that has never been on land to acknowledge that it is surrounded by vast quantities of water.
Scandinavia is like that when it comes to leftism.
With the advent of the Internet, we have become aware of what America thinks.
It's off the scale, basically.
The general consensus is that American politics is insane and stupid, and that no one in their right mind would run a country that way. Saying things to this effect is explicitly *not* controversial in Scandinavia.