A common conservative joke online is that if Tumblr were a country, it would look a lot like Sweden. Although some still see the Scandinavian nation as either a Christmas card full of blond-haired people listening to ABBA or a socialist paradise that America would be prudent to emulate, the truth is that Sweden is a place where violent crime has increased significantly over the last four decades.

One would think that such dramatic statistics would be discussed daily in the Swedish press. After all, as noir writers like Henning Mankell, the late Stieg Larsson, and Camilla Läckberg have shown, the Nordic thirst for murder may be unquenchable. The problem is that the current crime wave in Sweden is being driven by something that the elites refuse to acknowledge.