lunatic fringe
Noun
Meaning
a political unit with extreme and fanatical views
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Examples
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
The progressive movement is the lunatic fringe of the left. It is the home of everything that you despise. It is the home of income tax. It is the home of prohibition. It is the home of the Fed.
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.