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Originally Posted by ebacon

My understanding is that he fell under the spell of Ayn Rand while in Hollywood. Her Ayn Rand Institute is now based in Irvine, CA. I don't know if it existed during Reagan's time, but Ayn Rand worked for one of the Hollywood film outfits during the 30's.

Later in life she moved to NYC and of course Reagan to DC. That's when the NYC/DC symbiotic relationship really took off.

When Reagan ran for president Ayn Rand railed against him. She blabbered some nonsense about hating his religion. IMO she really hated him because he was taking a hard line against communism.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a..._ronald_reagan

I do not know anything really about Rand, but I sort of assumed she was anti-communist since all of these people like Paul Ryan love her.....and in Madmen (the tv show) the CEO of the advertising firm all the characters work in has Atlas Shrugged in his office.