Of course Orwell was a socialist, which makes his popularity among goobers all the more entertaining. And Ayn Rand was a militant atheist who believed in free love and unlimited abortions.
You seem to be a fan (perhaps unknowingly) of Cleon Skousen who may have been the first person to be remembered for suggesting Hitler was a leftist in 1962. because there were lots of people that actually remebered WW2, he was widely regarded as being at least a little bit insane. And his critics noted that if one looked beyond this red herring argument that Skousen’s agenda was close to outright Fascism. He was considered too far right for the John Birch Society and the old segregated Mormon Church.
Skousen also believed that he was an LDS prophet, because nothing says “Hey I’m not insane!” like thinking you’re a prophet.
He languished in obscurity until being promoted by Glenn Beck, another totally-not-insane conservative with a very shaky grasp even on his own religion.
And this led to the very visible Skousen institute pamphlet in Cliven Bundy’s shirt pocket. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with Bundy’s Mormon faith, or he just feels the same comfort level of many evangelical Christians who also take the ramblings of a fringe self-styled Mormon “prophet” as the word of God - Elohim or Yahweh, I guess it’s all the same.
The “consitutional conservatices” love affair with Skousen and his ideas that Hitler was a leftist is apparently not dimmed by Skousen’s proposal to eliminate most of US society and replace it with a centrally planned economy.
