{"id":1731968,"date":"2022-11-09T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731968"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:17:51","slug":"army-colonel-turned-red-meat-culture-warrior-this-is-a-life-and-death-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-colonel-turned-red-meat-culture-warrior-this-is-a-life-and-death-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Colonel Turned Red Meat Culture Warrior: \u2018This Is A Life And Death Fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farmy-colonel-turned-red-meat-culture-warrior-this-is-a-life-and-death-fight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kurt Schlichter once threw a famous author\u2019s spy novel across the room, bored by its contents.<\/p>\n<p>The trial lawyer, Townhall columnist and occasional stand-up could have let his frustration end there. Instead, the devoutly conservative scribe decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Schlichter penned his first action adventure, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peoples-Republic-Kurt-Schlichter\/dp\/1539018954\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=\">People\u2019s Republic<\/a>,\u201d in 2016. The story followed America\u2019s literal split into red and blue state countries, and the ensuing Civil War-sized fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that saga\u2019s story continues with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inferno-Kelly-Turnbull-Kurt-Schlichter\/dp\/1734199377\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=\">Inferno,<\/a>\u201d the seventh adventure featuring his rugged hero, Kelly Turnbull. It\u2019s an unabashedly red meat narrative, one that celebrates \u201cSen. Nick Searcy,\u201d toasts conservative radio stars and doesn\u2019t clutch a single pearl as our hero takes down the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it \u201cfan service\u201d for conservative readers, and he has no regrets about the approach. What\u2019s wrong with connecting with one\u2019s fan base, he says, decrying the oh, so serious sentiment many bring to pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything you like has to be somehow bad in our culture. Everything has to be a painful death march,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, Schlichter used a mega-company famous for its censorial ways to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon allowed me a way to get past the gatekeepers. There\u2019s nobody to tell me, \u2018you can\u2019t say that,\u2019\u201d Schlichter says of his popular, self-published series.<\/p>\n<p>The retired Army infantry colonel had always planned to become a novelist, but he says the \u201claw and military and stand-up comedy and family\u201d got in the way. He refused to let the dream go, though, inspired by the bond he shared with late media mogul Andrew Breitbart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make our own culture,\u201d Breitbart told him. The Kelly Turnbull series arrived at just the right time, as he sees it.<\/p>\n<p>The novels check off more than a few boxes for Schlichter. He fulfilled a dream he began nurturing in elementary school, gave the conservative movement a literary hero they could call their own and embraced the technology that streamlined self-publishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly as a conservative I can have a voice,\u201d he says, adding delivering the goods matters just as much. \u201cYou have to be good first before you deliver a message. My books are fun and entertaining, if I say so myself, but I have to do that long before I start making any message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His secret to success?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to write a book that was all \u2018good parts,\u2019\u201d he says. And \u201cInferno\u201d fits that description, brimming with taut action scenes, betrayals and more. Those seeking soulful self-examination from their macho heroes should look elsewhere, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted a protagonist who can drive the action,\u201d says Schlichter of Turnbull, whose knowledge of firearms alone sets him apart from his literary peers.<\/p>\n<p>His legal training helped Schlichter write lean, mean adventure yarns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn law, your reply brief is 10 pages. Make your point,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s where I came out of \u2026 everything is gonna amuse you or make a point I wanna make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInferno\u201d still brings shadings to the rock \u2018em, sock \u2018em action beats. The story is set after the Civil War 2.0 wrapped, and while the blue cities remain pinned by their socialist mores, the red state denizens are hardly angels.<\/p>\n<p>Human nature, the author says, brings out the flaws in everyone. That means the saga\u2019s cynical hero has his hands full while trying to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInferno,\u201d like recent Kelly Turnbull tales, depicts a worst-case scenario for a deeply divided nation. The saga\u2019s author sounds more optimistic that his dystopian tales will stay on the page and not spring to life all around us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always optimistic. I think we\u2019re gonna get better \u2026 the American people will do the right thing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He still sees some troubling trends where Americans are self-isolating based on political beliefs, like conservatives flocking to freer states like Florida and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re segregating ourselves,\u201d says Schlichter, a life-long California resident.<\/p>\n<p>Schlichter laughs at some attacks on his book series, like a critic who dubbed a Turnbull novel \u201cracist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have bad news honey, I sold 2,000 books that day,\u201d says Schlichter, noting his wife is an Hispanic legal immigrant. He\u2019s not done, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat color is Kelly Turnbull? He\u2019s a big guy, tall and proficient in weapons. Why couldn\u2019t [black actor] Idris Elba play him?\u201d he asks. \u201cThere\u2019s no point to making Kelly Turnbull some specific race. He could be any [race]. He\u2019s a marine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author says his book series does more than engage in the culture in the grand Breitbart tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a way for normal people to realize, \u2018you\u2019re not alone and you\u2019re not hallucinating,\u2019\u201d he says. His 2016 debut novel, \u201cPeople\u2019s Republic,\u201d might have seemed extreme at the time. Now, in Biden\u2019s America, he says he may have been too conservative in his imaginative settings.<\/p>\n<p>Schlichter brings considerable military chops to the Turnbull series. He served in both the Persian Gulf War and Kosovo and helped his country stateside during the Los Angeles riots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Schlichter once threw a famous author\u2019s spy novel across the room, bored by its contents. The trial lawyer, Townhall columnist and occasional stand-up could have let his frustration end there. Instead, the devoutly conservative scribe decided to do something about it. Schlichter penned his first action adventure, \u201cPeople\u2019s Republic,\u201d in 2016. 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