More broadly, asylum policy has taken a restrictive turn, with a tightening of conditions on family reunification and refugees now being granted only temporary rather than (as was previously the case) permanent resident permits.

So does all this mean that Trump is right – Sweden is in the midst of an identity crisis, prompted by refugees and migrants? No.

While ethnically-defined understandings of national identity have risen in prominence in recent years, our research found that the Swedes of all political persuasions preferred a civic, rather than ethnic, interpretation of citizenship. Swedish people were also the second most likely of our six-country European study to say that ethnic and religious diversity had improved their country for the better.

While we should be wary of a shifting political discourse that is increasingly hostile to outsiders, relative to many other Europeans’ hardening views, Swedes remain strikingly open minded. In his attempt to find like-minded friends across the Atlantic, Trump’s comments go far beyond hyperbole. If he is looking for a country in crisis in Europe, he has failed to find one in Sweden.

Peter Harrisson-Evans is a researcher at the cross-party think-tank Demos