Wait...couldn't "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" simply be saying that "Society is well-served by creative and noble minds that are driven by ideals, and poorly-served by those who seek to exploit those minds?" As such, Bill Gates might be a stand-in for the noble, idealistic mind (after all, he's giving his money away trying to solve the world's problems) and Donald Trump would be the government exploiter/usurper trying to "play" Gates? Though Rand novels end up like superhero comic books, with overblown heroes and actions, they seem to be fundamentally true and satisfying at a basic level (just like when Superman defeats Lex Luther). Like Nietzsche, I believe Rand's stuff has been twisted by the Right into giving license to Capitalists (for better or worse), and undue license to Fascists (never good), when I believe it was meant to give license to the noble inventor, who seeks respect as a minimum payment. I suppose as a Nazi construct, Werner Von Braun would be the Ayn Rand hero, and Hitler the usurper. It is said that Nietzsche would have been horrified by Fascist interpretations of his work, and perhaps it's time we equate the Trump/Kushner/Murdoch brand with Rand's Wesley Mouch and Ellsworth Toohey characters (both exploitative weenies). Personally I'm not interested in the nutty Nietzsche/Rand extrapolations, but their works are fundamentally a good stand-in for that "Jimmy Stewart" experience in life, when you try to do something creative and noble before the parasites dog-pile all over you. (more in my article https://scottvern.medium.com/bill-gates-transcendent-rational-thinking-makes-him-a-target-for-the-political-extremes-94b933cb86d6)