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Authoritarians taking control of the government is a baked in feature of capitalism. Maybe you think your country is so exceptional that it will never happen to you. That's what they all think before The Fall.
To say it would never happen to your country would be very ignorant. But Saying a democratic process having some responsability, I think is fair. Usually, it starts with a Guy like trump, making politics "great again" a guy speaking the language of the People, being funded by billionaires to make them richer and more powerful. It's up to the People to see through this madness. Like we had a Guy in denmark called Rasmus Paludan, he was exactly this. Called out Foreigners, wanted to drop all criminal refugees from the sky with paracutes down on the snow desert of greenland.
This guy seemed to gain a lot of votes, when your saw how much attention he got from social media and such, by doing controversial things like livestreaming he burned the Koran and such.
He failed messirably in the ballet. He then gained a lot of popularity in sweden, and tried there. Again, failed.
Ofc you can't compare the democratic process of sweden and denmark to the usa. Since it isn't a federal government with multiple states, and isn't a 100% capitalistic system, where backing from private companies benefits your cause, rather than in scandinavia, People would absolutely see it as corruption and would impact your political run negatively. We also have maybe the nearest to a valid media cocerage you could get, which is actively giving all candidates the same/or near same speaking time on television, rather than us private media, which Usually is in favor of one party (fox for trump, CNN for pamala Harris, etc.).
I am Saying it is harder for the hitlers to gain power in a scandinavian model (also because of the multiple party parlament system) rather than the usa model.