Thank you for the kind review. You can play the (almost) finished game here. It went through some very heavy polishing and bugfixing. The gameplay is already finished, now we are just working on the end screen newspaper, which should be ready tomorrow.
You don't have to be a full-blown populist to win, but its true that you probably have to chose a populist answer here and there.
We also intent to make it impossible to just lie your way to the victory by ending the debate early and kicking you out if you authenticity drops under a certain threshold. This will also be available tomorrow.