"Poor abstract reasoning skills" is probably the most sensitive way I can put it. We're a fairly conservative country at the best of times.
We had a leftist government for the first time in over a decade, and they started right before COVID hit. They handled things OK, but we had a government full of young female ministers and that did not sit right with conservatives. All of the right wing parties and their supporters started lying about eg. employment going down due to government mismanagement (it actually went up despite COVID), the PM using drugs (she wasn't), that the government is taking on too much debt (they weren't, at last in comparison to the other Nordics or central Europe), etc etc. Crises tend to draw people to authoritarianism, and here especially the extreme right wing party is now the second most popular right after the "fiscal conservatives".
But we have the government we deserve. If people are so unfathomably stupid as to want austerity and Nazi ministers, we don't deserve anything better