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[–] 16900225? ago 

Remember when that EU official said that the answer to rising nationalism is to put forth fake populist candidates?

In that case they'll be introducing quite a few candidates in an attempt to spark D&C among all of their bases, and corral disillusioned supporters towards the actual candidate they want in. Their idea would be to break faith in supporting any populist candidate altogether.

Because any single populist candidate would still pose the risk of uniting a lot of like-minded people (who buy into the pretext of what they're campaigning for) together. So even if the candidate deliberately self-destructs, said people could end up rallying for their own cause.

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[–] 16900227? ago 

Might explain the 20 democrat candidates (so far).