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Reacher is both an overt right-wing power fantasy and the kind of avenger lefties can get behind.

He can’t “fix” what’s oppressing them, but he may be able to rig it for a favored few, becoming the heartland’s and the urban working-class’ imagined avenger when he’s really their pusher.

Now, the avengers agreed, they were the “last bastion of defense” for the masses.

That wouldn’t stop the health care machine from crushing more people because that cruelty and violence is systemic, not individual — and that problem can’t be fixed by a lone avenger with a gun.

Duncan’s great-grandmother, Lucy Moore, was just 6 when U.S. soldiers and self-appointed avengers besieged her and other villagers.