Doll Decadence and Pencil Profligacy (CIB #239)

Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe · May 7, 2025 · 1h 35m

This week we’re discussing Donald Trump’s insistence that there’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be solved by simply denying your insatiable appetite for ever more dolls and pencils. Does the president’s suspicion of all trade speak to the existential malaise of the modern American cursed to live in a time of obscene overconsumption, a people incapable of listening to their inner moral conscience in the face of so many tempting glittering baubles? Is the wage of living hypocritical lives in contradiction of our values a collective victimhood that prevents us from accepting…