It’s not Denmark, it’s our PM. She’s a power hungry a-hole who can’t keep power without inciting fear in people. She milked covid for all she could. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and we started donating a lot. I fully support donating military equipment to Ukraine, but I can tell from Danish news media that some of my fellow Danes are starting to drink the Russian “we can’t afford to help Ukraine when our butter is so expensive”-gatorade. So she needs something else now, with parliamentary elections less than a year away, our dear leader has decided to go all in on “won’t somebody think of the children”, “immigration is bad, and all foreigners are immigrants”, and “justice, both in social benefits and crime”

So the tldr on why Denmark is being a totalitarian prick at the moment is, that our PM is a fading star desperately trying to get reelected.