It occurs to me that Trump, in his cabinet picks, is choosing extremely qualified individuals from among those he either knows personally or have been recommended by those he knows personally. Some of his picks, however, make little sense unless he is deliberately populating The Valley ... in which case, they make eminent sense.
Can it be that, rather than retreating to build a Utopian civilization, Trump is attacking the old civilization and taking all who are willing to come along with him? Rand's heroes built their new society in hiding in the hope that others would like what they saw. Trump is doing it in plain view: hiding, as it were, in the open.
I'm old enough to be cautious about hero worship and realistic about the ups and down of "regime change" right here in the US, but this analysis is the only one that seems to fit the pieces of the puzzle I actually know.
There were negatives about John Galt and others have voiced them. Some are voicing negatives about Trump (morally, how is he so different from Rearden?). But both men seem to be driven by a vision of the way the world ought properly be run.
Like I said, I'm still cautious and I know that I am only seeing what I am being shown, but this is what I think I am seeing.

And you?