The “right” suffers from the delusion that they are the top of the pile - Randian producer-heros as it were, and that the governmental/academic elites are mere parasites and moochers.
Although it is true that through their powers these elites create a large group of non-productive dependents, an underclass, they themselves are predators, who dine as they please on the fruits of the productive.
Ecologically considered, they are the lions of the Serengeti; the struggling producers are the wildebeests.
“Who-whom?” - V.I.Lenin
Many of the enemies in Ayn Rand novels were corporate titans teaming up with the government/leftists