Viagra effects not clearing from the night before…?!

It was a light hearted comment perhaps explaining that people weren't looking at you because you are white but because the aftereffects of viagra may still be with you...

I have no presumptions about Putin but to credit him with interference that genuinely works in all of our elections is ridiculous. I'm sure he tries in some cases.
What is causing the rise of the right, the rise of populism is immigration and the consequences of it. People can see it with their own eyes every time they go out. Sometimes they need only look out of the window. They don't need Putin to tell them.
There are large swathes of France where they literally stare at you for being white. How that happened was little to do with Putin. Our own governments did it.

So the two main right wing parties in France are supported by Putin?

Who knows?

But if the pattern elsewhere is followed then it's very likely.

Not overtly, and its contribution is impossible to measure, but drip, drip misinformation fed into social media platforms does have an impact. So-called "influencers" don't get paid big bucks for nothing.