The alternative is that troubles in people's lives could be their own damn fault, which sounds vastly more right-wing to me than blaming everything else.

Undisciplined

Totally -.-

_sociatally structurally_ bad forces, eh

denlillaapan

That aligns nicely with populism. It supports the idea that troubles in people's lives are caused by malign forces and that certain special individuals can take those enemies on and win.

From a wider lens. When is it that "trouble in peoples lives" are not because of "malign forces"? Its something like a tautology. (If your house is destroyed by a hurricane isn't that also a 'malign force')

BooksAndArticles

Fantasy Books Are Right-Wing Propaganda (Financial Times, Martin Sandbu)

>That aligns nicely with populism. It supports the idea that troubles in people's lives are caused by malign forces and that certain special individuals can take those enemies on and win. 

Unlike Marxism? 

From a wider lens. When is it that "trouble in peoples lives" are not because of "malign forces"? Its something like a tautology. (If your house is destroyed by a hurricane isn't that also a 'malign force')