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There were many which embraced ideas which we call libertarian, and they predate Warren Calhoun, but they are qualities of the rich who have everything to lose with progressivism.

It was indeed Ayn Rand, who popularized and made libertarianism into a cult. A cult which people like Tim Miller a Bulwark contributor and frequent guest on MSNBC still embraces.

Bulwark and Lincoln Project staff are neverr Trump Republicans, but still believe in the tenets of faith first voiced by Rand in her many books, not just the Fountain Head, but Atlas Shrugged and the Art of Selfishness, which I confess to reading before I WOKE up.

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You left out Paul Ryan, my man! The good-lookin' guy who knew when to fold his hand but is young enough to come back, who said Rand was the great inspiration of his philosophy somewhere along the way. I keep an ear to the ground for the timely return of Paul Ryan.

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Oh, god...that's ominous! A sociopath-in-waiting...

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