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Pretty much dead on.

I don't think any conservatives think of Nietzsche as a more serious Ayn Rand, rather they think of Ayn Rand as serious herself. Reading Nietzsche (or any philosopher really) without the proper context these days he appears just genuinely weird. I think non-intellectual people on the left read Derrida and Foucault and it eventually turned into trigger warnings and safe spaces. Non-intellectual people on the right read Nietzsche and it eventually turned into books called things like "Atlas Shrugged" and polemics about "makers and takers".