Yaron Brook on Trump, Ayn Rand and America

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[ahappyimago]

Yaron Brooks is the truth. Talk about speaking truth to power.

[spcooper]

This guy has his biases so far up his ass that his answer was based solely from his personal subjective opinions and emotions rather than the objective data!

When I read The Fountainhead, I felt that Trump displayed some similarities to Howard Roark. Also, he promotes much of an individualistic society. Less taxes allows less to be taken away from individuals. He taxes the rich less, which allows them to make decisions for how and if they want to expand their businesses and source of income. 

The expansion of businesses allows more job availabilities, but this is only if those in power choose to do so. This results in trickle-down economics, which works by letting the people have more power of how the economy is

[greenjihad]

ARI stands for the Anti-Rand Institute. Never mind what she wrote about for the 1972 election of Nixon vs McGovern.

[matthewcolon]

This man's answer is not astute and horribly biased. Considering Trump's presidential predecessors I would say she would think of Trump as a breath of fresh air.

[AynRandInstitute]

For those interested in learning more, read Onkar Ghate's article:
"THE ANTI-INTELLECTUALITY OF DONALD TRUMP: WHY AYN RAND WOULD HAVE DESPISED A PRESIDENT TRUMP"

[diegomorales]

Leonard Peikoff said the last person Ayn Rand voted for happily was Gerald Ford because "he didn't stand for much at all." Doesn't that sound more like Trump than any Democratic candidate? Or *any* candidate from any party? I'm no fan of his, but for voting purposes he lacks the theocractic or anti-American tendencies of most politicians.

[eastcoastenzo]

Do you know what Ayn Rand would say? Do you know what Ayn Rand would think? I DO! She would say, "STOP TELLING PEOPLE WHAT I WOULD SAY OR THINK, YARON!"

[trentbell]

"This is a president who has no conception of the constitution"
My god Yaron is delusional! Ayn would recognize Trump as a force for good and realize she must offer him some support.

[SpacePatrollerLaser]

I haven't seen so many trolls since I crossed that bridige just outside of Copenhagen. Jeez, has there been a protal someone left open to Middle Earth? Call the SCP Foundation! This needs Containment FAST!!

[mrjnk]

Trump puts value on exceptionalism, on greatness. This to many is enough to accept him for his flaws as he muddles-though striving for excellence.

[torusmayhem]

Yaron Brooks does not speak for Ayn Rand. His answer is full of emotive language and lacks any content.

[kevincrady]

I think she would have expressed mild preference for him over Hillary Clinton (for one thing, she did not think a woman should be President), and would have agreed with some of his policies but not others (e.g. tax cuts yes, tariffs and anti-abortion, no), but she would have had a lot of harsh words to say about his complete lack of philosophical grounding and principle. Ask Trump to state his philosophy while standing on one foot and: 1) he couldn't manage to stand on one foot; 2) he'd say something like "I have the best philosophy. Tremendous philosophy, many people tell me that. I'm a very stable genius, I have the best brain."

Also, from his shady business practices to his multiple bankruptcies to his garish tastes, and even to his looks (doughy roundness rather than sharp angularity), he is a physical concretization of a Randian "villain businessman" (as opposed to her vision of heroic businessmen).

I think if she was to fangirl over anyone in our current era, it would be Elon Musk.

[feddundas]

I think Rand would see Trump as an amoralist (as in her essay: Selfishness without a Self). Rand had that sense without being a psychoanalyst. If she were alive today she may know more about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (the bulk of which, we've only known since the 1990s [particularly of the right hemisphere of the brain]), because it seems both Trump and the president before him both are at the very least pathological narcissists. Their subjective inner experience very likely includes no empathy and perhaps no real emotions (not all of their kind are seething with anger). Much is known about both men's childhood as well and it lines up (their first year of life, and, often, absent father to downregulate aggression in the second or third year). That Trump cares zero about the constitution has to do with psychology and is too much to go into, you almost have to sound like a mystic to the unawoke who may question you about your determination. Yaron's doing tacit, accurate psychoanalysis here.

[SevenFields]

Unsubscribed for this shallow talk alone.

[krismauldin]

A totally emotional response from a usually reliable intelletual. Yaron: He's a politician. A businessman. How many eventual residents of Galt's Gulch were able to articulate precisely WHY they were there? We translate their utter frustration with having the fruits of their labor stolen and coercive force being applired to them but they didn't and were unable to express WHY that happened or WHY it was absent in Galt's Gulch. Yaron's statement is a clear example of why Objectivism has been an impotent force in the direction of our country, culture and philosophy. Philosophy is the fountainhead of the intellect but it's popularizers are the driving force on the ground and they are often inarticulate and sloppy.

[johnrand]

Yaron is as clueless about Trump as those who trust the MSM.

[aungkyawmoe]

At least trump don't push Gun Control every time there is a huge news.

[JadeIsBunny]

ah yes, the US, famous for being a moral country

[puppetsock]

Ah Yaron. You can be correct about so many things and then you can whiff. "Can't save them all, Hasselhoff."