Maybe it has something to do with the fact that politicians are crafting social-engineering schemes based on her theories? That would tend to excite the natives.
If a serving politico publicly declared his allegiance to the writing of L. Ron Hubbard or Karl Marx, it would be fair game to drag their rotting corpses out and demonstrate how empty their philosophies were. In this case, we have a group of politicians who not only admire Rand but are basing their ideology on Gault's Gulch. So Rand is relevant and a fair target.
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