After the abuse Volodymyr Zelensky endured in the Oval Office, his trip to London, to confer with allies who continue to act like allies, must have felt like a return to sanity. But promises of European troops to police a possible peace agreement with Russia do not alter the fact that Ukraine needs America to underpin a settlement that secures its independence.
 
European voters, meanwhile, are becoming more supportive of the sort of parties that Trumpworld approves of. Our analysis and charts show that, for the first time in modern history, hard-right parties have a higher share of the vote in European democracies than do conservative and social-democratic ones.