lunatic fringe

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Because of that, “no matter how much McCarthy bent over backwards to accommodate a lunatic fringe, there’s going to be someone who didn’t like him,” Ornstein said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023

Unfortunately for the lunatic fringe, however, those events were just horse races:

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018

Sure, Jones arguably says more outlandish things from a position that used to be the far lunatic fringe.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2017

Roosevelt must have been made unusually merry by such tidings from Boston, the city which he regarded as particularly prolific in "the men who formed the lunatic fringe in all reform movements."

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe