Originally posted by inimalist
sure, in some ways. my point is that there are fundamental misunderstandings at the core of each comparison. hitler thought neitsche was giving the wink and the nod, saying that Jews needed to be exterminated and all that (simplified, I know) whereas modern republicans seem to think rand was in favor of a state that had no ability to enforce the regulations/contracts that people and the state engage in. I'm not making a pro rand or pro neitzsche point, just pointing out that rand would, IMHO, not support a vast amount of modern republican policy, as it undermines those contracts and essentially weakens the ability of the state to do the limited things she would support the state doing
Not to mention, Rand considered Objectivism incompatible with Christianity and said she considered the latter an evil philosophy... something I doubt most republicans would agree with.