Rand denounced Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler as collectivists little different from Stalin himself. Her American followers are extreme “Rugged Individualists” relying on a different Social Darwinist tradition, that of the Robber Barons derived from Calvinism. In fact, it was the Robber Barons she specifically aimed her philosophy toward.
So the future American tyranny won’t be that of, say, right-wing militias devoted to identity politics. It’ll be that of the richest men with the biggest egos — who will promptly proceed to stab each other in the back and undermine their own system in the sacred name of Ambition…
