Rand liked Nixon and hated Reagan.
Rand said: “But if you consider the alternatives, it becomes clear that our only choice in this election is to vote for Nixon or to abstain from voting.” The Objectivist, June 1968, page 2.
Reagan was a fan of Ayn Rand. I personally spoke with him at length in 1964, before he was even governor of California. This is also acknowledged by the Atlas Society. http://atlassociety.org/objectivism/a...
Nonetheless, Rand’s last public statement regarding politics (1981), is anti-Reagan. I don’t know where to get the text, but here is the video. https://youtu.be/4196WvmEcYM
What do Gulchers think Rand would say about Clinton and Trump?
Reagan was a fan of Ayn Rand. I personally spoke with him at length in 1964, before he was even governor of California. This is also acknowledged by the Atlas Society. http://atlassociety.org/objectivism/a...
Nonetheless, Rand’s last public statement regarding politics (1981), is anti-Reagan. I don’t know where to get the text, but here is the video. https://youtu.be/4196WvmEcYM
What do Gulchers think Rand would say about Clinton and Trump?
I would of hoped she would of seen hilteries criminality and trumpets lack of substance, lack of Constitutional knowledge, But mostly, I would of hopped that she would of seen his strong man approach and rejected it. It would of had to reminded her of Stalin and hitler.
Of course, trumets rhetoric has softened a bit lately and has stuck to a reasonable and rational script.
So...I think, on the above basis, she might of gone for Gary Johnson with some criticisms added.
The Supreme Court, for example, Hillary regards Ruth Bader Ginsburg as her model Supreme Court justice, and I think Ginsburg is one of the worst judges ever appointed. Trump's potential nominees (he named 11) are all approved by the Cato Institute, a think tank to which I give high respect. The worst nominee by Trump would have to be better than any nominee by the Queen of Corruption.
This same thing will happen down the line of regulatory agencies such as the EPA, Labor Board, etc., all of which have been strangling business even more than taxes have.
I hope I am not going to quote more than is allowed.
From 'The Ayn Rand Letter' October 25, 1971:
concerning president Nixon, "...In spite of the usual pragmatist evasions, it was clear to his supporters and enemies alike that he was elected and a champion - or semi-champion - of free enterprise. If one needs factual proof of the danger of implicit promises, unnamed hopes, undeclared principles - i.e., of the futility and impracticality of playing it short-range - Mr. Nixon is the proof. He is an immortal refutation of Pragmatism.
" The worst thing one can say about Mr. Nixon is that he is sincere. A clever demagogue would not believe that one can protect a country's freedom by establishing the foundation, the principle and the precedent of a totalitarian dictatorship., Mr. Nixon, apparently, does."