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Lunatic fringe   /lˈunətˌɪk frɪndʒ/   Listen
Lunatic fringe

noun
1.
A political unit with extreme and fanatical views.





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"Lunatic fringe" Quotes from Famous Books



... critics as E.L. Godkin who put so much emphasis on the failures of the reformers as to overshadow their positive achievements. Moreover, there were the well-meaning but impracticable people who constituted what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "lunatic fringe" ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
... of a lunatic fringe in the Consolidated Illiterates' Organization who want just that, Chester Pelton knows that we cannot abolish Literacy entirely. Even with modern audio-visual recording, need exists for some modicum of written recording, ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... soon called the Bull Moose Party, attracted the usual group of reformers, and some cranks. Each new party does this. Roosevelt had, many years before, spoken of the "lunatic fringe" which clings to the skirts ...
— Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Lester Pearson


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