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How Much Ayn Rand Is There in Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy?

by Elan Journo | Mar 1, 2017

In Donald Trump’s “America first” policy we can detect “an unintended reincarnation of Ayn Rand,” suggests Arnold Steinberg in The American Spectator. Rand’s ideas may well have influenced Trump in some indirect way (the cultural impact of her philosophy is…