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Since the definition of "fan fiction" seems now to include anything palpably inspired by its model, whether it uses its characters and setting or not, at least if it invokes its spirit, behold some Ayn Rand fanfic.

(Really, though, who else but Ayn Rand could invent this character? So what is he doing in my universe?)

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If Ayn Rand had invented Paul Ryan, it would have been as a villain, I think. That's based on his views on abortion. Rand was very explicit in her condemnation of Ronald Reagan, saying that anyone who opposed the right to abortion could not claim to be an advocate of individual rights, and therefore had no philosophical foundation for a defense of capitalism; and Ryan is if anything worse on abortion than Reagan was. She described the idea of a prenatal right to life as "vicious nonsense."