It's Ayn Rand's America now: Republicans have stripped the country of its last shred of morality

If you have any doubts that the phenomenon of Donald Trump was a long time a'coming, you have only to read a piece that Gore Vidal wrote for Esquire magazine in July 1961, when the conservative movement was just beginning and even Barry Goldwater was hardly a glint in Republicans' eyes. Vidal's target was Paul Ryan's…