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To: Retrofitted

From another review:

“If only. Either—or even watching all of Game of Thrones in a single sitting—would be preferable to the hellish experience of more than two intermissionless hours with this pretentious, smugly provocative, virtuosically wordy but fundamentally empty play.” ~ David Fox

https://recliningstandards.com/2019/10/07/review-heroes-of-the-fourth-turning-dwells-in-darkness/


3 posted on 12/11/2019 3:16:39 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Retrofitted; marktwain; colorado tanker
In case anybody is still wondering, it must be 10+ years ago that American Conservative blogger Rod Dreher wrote ""Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers and their diverse crowd of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party)."

Long, self-ironic title.

THe "crunchy" part is a reference to granola. The idea is, these are conservatives on the opposite end of the spectrum from RINOs or neo-cons. Probably closer to paleoconservative: faith & family & yearning for a small farm someplace.

8 posted on 12/11/2019 5:20:27 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. Yogi Berra)
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