Hmm, "bizarre". I don't think so. More, "bureaucratic" on average. Things which might have seemed "bizarre" to American observers of Europe in recent years:

Hmm, "bizarre". I don't think so. More, "bureaucratic" on average. Things which might have seemed "bizarre" to American observers of Europe in recent years: the nativist parties in the Netherlands and France, the superstition of the Italian court system in the Amanda Knox trial, Boris Johnson... But those are all supporting characters, whereas I imagine that European observers of the US are focused on our central drama.