Is Crunchy Cons (2006) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 22 / 100 (CHUD-leaning (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Rod Dreher, 2006.
20 votes: 20% WOKE, 80% CHUD.
Why: Conservative lifestyle and culture essays
When a colleague teased writer Dreher one day about his visit to the "lefty" local food co-op, he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of conventional Republican politics. Shortly thereafter, Dreher wrote an essay about "crunchy cons," people whose "Small Is Beautiful" style of conservative politics often put them at odds with GOP orthodoxy. Dreher was deluged by e-mails from conservatives across America saying "Hey, me too!" Here, Dreher reports on the depth and scope of this phenomenon, which is redefining the taxonomy of America's political and cultural landscape. At a time when the Republican party, and the conservative mov…