Reading an Ayn Rand book is like trudging through the winter of the political takes. Feeling the cold seep in through your felt boots as you trod through the commentary. But finally, a tall man arrives, and spring is come! Among other things.
And we all have other things.
If the Whites had won the civil war, Ayn Rand would have just written weapons-grade smut, probably kickstarting the romantasy genre and quite possibly independently discovering the omegaverse, very likely with significant implications on global TFR.