Had Ayn Rand not existed, conservatives would hold up Heinlein or Orson Scott Card or HP Lovecraft or George Orwell as their explicit go-to for jerk-off fiction. It isn't as though there's a shortage of revanchist fantasy from the Cold War Era.
But as an actual head of government leading one of the globe's surviving military/colonial powers and socio-economic centers, Thatcher got to turn that fantasy into reality. She inflicted far more material harm than Ayn Rand could have dreamed of doing with her mediocre sci-fi.
Its like asking who was the better Marxist - Terry Pratchett or Fidel Castro? No offense to Pratchett, but Castro actually did the thing.
Had Ayn Rand not existed, conservatives would hold up Heinlein or Orson Scott Card or HP Lovecraft or George Orwell as their explicit go-to for jerk-off fiction. It isn't as though there's a shortage of revanchist fantasy from the Cold War Era.
But as an actual head of government leading one of the globe's surviving military/colonial powers and socio-economic centers, Thatcher got to turn that fantasy into reality. She inflicted far more material harm than Ayn Rand could have dreamed of doing with her mediocre sci-fi.
Its like asking who was the better Marxist - Terry Pratchett or Fidel Castro? No offense to Pratchett, but Castro actually did the thing.