@irie

> How can we eliminate Ayn Rand's ideas from the American Right?

I don't think she has much influence. She was kinda propped up as a PR maneuver and her writing is tedious and her philosophy was the negation of the USSR, which is dead.

> but the inherent drive for atomization

I think this is a myth, a bogeyman, something right-wing collectivists call individualists as a smear, but they repeat it as if that kind of person actually exists.

There's a big difference between "zero collective interest" and "no involuntary collective membership". Consider a person that enlists in the military but still opposes the draft. The point of disagreement isn't whether loyalty should exist but who decides.

I keep hearing that if I don't love the huwhite race that I am some kind of "atomized individual", a "rootless cosmopolitan", whatever; I don't think of myself that way: I have friends and family, I have colleagues, I participate in a culture. I signed up for that, though: I never signed up for a race, a nation-state, etc. I'm happy to oppose globalism because I also didn't sign up for a globalist regime that recognizes no limits to its authority.