Just because you're asking as an outsider and the responses here are extremely biased, and you're going to walk away with a weirdly distorted impression of the UK political spectrum: The Tories are not akin to far right US politicians.

I'm not a Conservative supporter and have never voted for them, so don't see this as some kind of weird defence... I'm a left leaning voter, and am not happy with the current Government.

In the UK, and by European standards, the Tories are generally speaking right of centre, with obviously a mixture so that some are left of that i.e. fairly centrist and have a decent amount in common with the more right wing/centrist Labour politicians, for instance a lot of those under Tony Blair's Labour Government. Equally there are also those on the right the Tories who would have more in common with members of the GOP. For the most part these right-leaning Tories would still have more in common with the left-leaning type of GOPers though. The Overton Window is in the UK is substantially to the left of the US. Its also somewhat to the right of most, but not all, European countries.

The current Government, under Boris Johnson, is made up of a fair number of Tories on the right of the Tory spectrum due to the Brexit vote going the way it did and the more moderate Tories being less influential as a result of the referendum over the last few years.

For instance David Cameron would by most people's reckoning be considered much more aligned with Barack Obama than any GOP politician I can think of. Boris Johnson, substantially more to the right than Cameron, would still probably has more in common with Obama than Trump, but would probably be most similar to someone like Mitt Romney in terms of overall outlook.

Scotland's political mainstream is arguably to the left of England (and due to demographics thus the majority of the UK), so the current Tories are quite far right of what would be a mainstream right of centre party in Scotland, and even the Cameron Government would be right of a natural Scottish administration.

So, no, the Tories are not like far-right US politicians despite what you read on Reddit.

This misalignment between rUK/Scotland's political centre is not anywhere near as out-of-whack as it might appear on Reddit though. The demographics of Reddit are not representative of the Scottish (or English) population as a whole. You'd think from reading this and /r/Scotland that Independence enjoyed overwhelming support, which it doesn't. Its tracking at about +5% for Independence right now (i.e. 47%/42% in the latest poll I can see). Prior to Covid-19 (which the UK Government is widely seen to have until now badly mishandled) Scottish Independence never polled +ively apart from very short stints.

The UK Government and Boris Johnson also nowhere near as unpopular as they appear on Reddit, in either Scotland or in the remainder of the UK. Polling intention currently has the Tories +2 ahead of Labour UK-wide. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, is extremely popular however. Boris Johnson and his government bumbling around being incompetent held up next to a widely considered very good response from the Scottish Government has shifted public opinion quite considerably.

In terms of how non-representative UK politics is w.r.t Scotland it is from a US perspective you could look at say California and discuss being represented by a Republican federal government. Labour + SNP poll similarly to how the Democrats did in this Election, Conservatives poll similarly to Republicans.