Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats

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25. Russia and RW power blocs supported the LW populist movement

to splinter off Democratic support in 2016 with enormous success that shook the world. It's still shaking. Much bigger power groups, of course, but very little investment.

Of course, when they tried again in 2020, it was with much less impact. More people were more aware of what had happened in the disaster of 2016 and the LW popuist candidate declined to cooperate and tamped way down on the hostile and dishonest tactics that inflame populist followings.