AHC: President Ayn Rand

Inspired by Linkwerk's "The Fountainhead Filibuster" timeline, there is the challenge: after 1957 (publication of Atlas Shrugged), make Ayn Rand president of United States and how would be her adminstration.

Fell free to go into Vlad Tepes territory.
 

Wolfpaw

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She's Constitutionally ineligible having been born in a foreign country. Of course, get enough of her acolytes into the Halls of Power and I suppose that could change.
 
AR might be able to get into the whitehouse. But that isn't to say one of her American born followers couldn't.
 
AR might be able to get into the whitehouse. But that isn't to say one of her American born followers couldn't.

Her chance might've been lost with Atlas Shrugged. It got denouced by both conservatives and liberals. Had she been able to maintain her links with the Buckleyites, however, things could get interesting...
 
Perhaps if Atlas Shrugged didn't draw such criticism from the left and right then there is a chance of a Randian in the whitehouse. If the left denounce it and the right do the opposite or vice versa then anything could happen.
 
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