Viewed from afar, one of the most interesting things about Wab Kinew’s ascendency to premier of Manitoba has been his conspicuous competence in retail politics. This is a rarer commodity in Canadian politics than most pundits acknowledge, I think. Justin Trudeau is absolutely terrible at it, and getting worse. The very sight of him empurples an incredible percentage of the Canadian public. The very deliberately made-over Pierre Poilievre benefits much from Trudeau’s terribleness. Jagmeet Singh took the best news story he’s had in ages — confronting and humiliating a heckler on Parliament Hill — and ruined it with a stupid social-media post blaming Poilievre for the unfortunate encounter. One of Singh’s recent tweets featured a photo of himself seemingly walking off a pier into the ocean.