The right-wing love affair with Ayn Rand ties conservatism to one of the most disturbing sociopathic killers

AlterNet logoThere’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand.

When Donald Trump was running for the GOP nomination, he told USA Today’s Kirsten Powers that Ayn Rand’s raped-girl-decides-she-likes-it novel, The Fountainhead, was his favorite book.

It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions,” he told Powers. “That book relates to … everything.”

View the complete August 12 article by Thom Hartmann from the Independent Media Institute on the AlterNet website here.