250 years of independence: is the US still a role model?

Sweden should look for new role models, recommends the Göteborg-Posten:

“Over the past few decades, Sweden has adopted virtually every American cultural trend, be it populism, activism or popular culture. Perhaps we should draw a little more inspiration from our European neighbours: from German high culture, Dutch consumer culture or French conversational culture, for instance. All phenomena which, in the world’s oldest democracy on the other side of the Atlantic, have now been replaced by trade tariffs, polarisation and an increasingly vulgar public discourse.”