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So Mr. Ryan’s vision of America looks nothing like reality. It is, however,
completely familiar to anyone who read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” as
a teenager. Nowadays the speaker denies being a Rand devotee, but while
you can at least pretend to take the boy out of the cult, you can’t take
the cult out of the boy. Like Ms. Rand - who was basically writing about
America in the Eisenhower years! - he sees the horrible world progressive
policies were supposed to produce, not the flawed but hopeful nation we
actually live in.