Book Review: Will Ayn Rand FINALLY influence the American political right? With Obama's fascism taking over America, the question arises: can the American political right find ways to stop America's headlong race down the road to serfdom? To even have hope of stopping the leftist and union thugs who have come into power, right wing lovers of freedom must gain a thorough understanding of the left, and more importantly must come to understand how people on the right cause their own defeat by means of what Ayn Rand calls "the sanction of the victim." In her new book, Goddess of the Market , University of Virginia historian Jennifer Burns goes along with the subtitle: Ayn Rand and the American Right , seeming to indicate that Ayn Rand might somehow have something to do with the modern political right wing. Ayn Rand avoided contact with and spent a lot of time fighting the American right. She saw most right-wingers as hopelessly politically naive. If she were alive today s...