Some of Rand’s personal choices, and the ‘romance’ in her novels make me cringe.
That said, she understood ABSOLUTELY what she chose to write about, and her socio-politico-economic philosophy is the only one that works in the long run.
Martin Luther King Jr. was much less than ideal in his personal life... That doesn’t make his “I had a Dream” speech any less true and any less world-changing.
Oh, and by the way.... She would have had Bernie Madoff executed. HE was a looter. A thief, a scam artist. He produced nothing. He was one of the most vile enemies in ‘RandLand’
Only capitalists who offer honest value for honest value are heroic in her world.