The parts of the article you linked that are about how Card is sooooo right-wing, and so pro-facist, are pretty... insubstantial? I'm attempting to write obli

The parts of the article you linked that are about how Card is sooooo right-wing, and so pro-facist, are pretty... insubstantial? I'm attempting to write obliquely to limit spoiler effect. But yeah, of course #2/#3 is the reason Ender's Game is so massively popular. But also notice that's not what the author thought he'd written (ha ha, so much for genius). I mean, notice that Card thinks that SftD and Xenocide are the natural sequels to the important themes of Ender's Game, but 99% of his commercial audience (including me at the age when I first read SftD) thought they were unrelated and unrelatable, and preferred the Shadow sequence. But Card took over a decade to go for it and write the first Shadow book, Ender's Shadow (1999, 13 years after SftD, which only took a year after Ender's Game). Ender's Game is pro-facist the way Robocop is pro-police-state. (And yeah, when I saw Robocop in my teens, I thought it was pro-police-state. sigh.)