Donald Trump is quite right that no evidence whatever has been produced that Vladimir Putin had ordered the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, a person of whom next to no one in Russia had ever heard, and who, if Putin had wanted him dead in Russia, would certainly have been dead by now, having probably been shot.
Navalny represents the kind of politics that the likes of Joe Biden, Keir Starmer and Emanuel Macron wish that the voters of Russia would prefer. But they do not. Navalny's successive vehicles have never succeeded in electing anyone, and the latest is lucky to hit two per cent in the opinion polls.
American voters do not like such politics any more than Russian ones do. If Biden wins, then it will be on the votes of people whose hatred of it was as visceral as any Trump supporter's, but who for some unknown reason hated Trump more. How much British voters like such politics may be ascertained from the vote for Change UK last year, and from Labour's performance under Starmer once there were elections again.
And the second round of the last French Presidential Election featured the candidate of a different country, of a continuously existing but distinctly minoritarian denial of the legitimacy of the French Republic, with an entirely different account of French history and culture. Neither individual policies nor individual candidates enter into this. If you can make it into a national runoff with that, then you are bound to win by default. The real popularity of Navalnyism in France was Macron's mighty 24.01 per cent of the vote in the first round.
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