Caldwell points out that Ayn Rand hated Reagan for his alliance with the religious right and his late-found opposition to abortion. She was wrong, though. Reagan could make any sorts of utterly meaningless advances to the religious groups, knowing that the totality of the ethos he (and Rand) were promoting would soon relegate these religious folks to the dustbin of history. And we are seeing it right now when the ultra-progressive Stacey Abrams argues that abortion is necessary because it’s good for business and Bernie thinks that the economy and the environment will flourish once third-world countries start aborting a lot more.
It becomes easier to see these parallels once we abandon the deep-seated need to divide the world into “good guys vs bad guys” and congratulate ourselves on being on the side of the good guys.
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