Noun
a political unit with extreme and fanatical views
Source: WordNetEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe. Theodore Roosevelt
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. H. L. Mencken
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. Theodore Roosevelt
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. Glenn Beck
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today. Jean-Louis Gassée
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. Kerry Thornley