In the heat of this election season, perhaps nothing underlines the blame approach as much as the issue of inflation, a complicated economic situation that is seriously hurting some people — and inconveniencing many others. The nice thing about blame is that it feels good. And it’s easy. With blame at least you don’t have to own a problem. You don’t have to analyze it or consider possible solutions. You can, in fact, feel righteous about it. It doesn’t matter that it’s global and almost twice as bad in Europe as in the United States. What matters is that there...