It isn't a conspiracy theory. It's politics. Political parties adopt and push policies they think people want. That's just how the system works, which is why I see populist parties as an important pressure bloc to force major parties to adopt policies that they need to adopt, but not as parties that will realistically gain power, for better or for worse.
EDIT: You contradict yourself. If a party was populist then it wouldn't represent the views of only a small portion of the voters.
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