In this episode, Mitch and Mike discuss Mitch's article, “Of Gods and Sand,” and the timeless danger of mistaking political power for moral authority. From ancient pharaohs to modern strongmen, history is littered with rulers who wanted not merely obedience, but adoration. The American Founders rejected that premise. They were Enlightenment thinkers who built a system around reason, individual rights, checks and balances, and the idea that no man—not a king, not a president, not a “savior”—stands above the law.
We connect Mitch’s article to Trump’s deeply anti-American instinct for personal glorification, and why that impulse is not merely a political problem, but a philosophical one. America was not founded on submission to God-kings. It was founded on the sovereignty of the individual. And that same principle is the moral and political foundation of capitalism: free people, using reason, producing, trading, building, and pursuing their own happiness without permission from a ruler.
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