lunatic fringe

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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

Her staff, she added with a laugh, “took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2021

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 had, many years before, spoken of the "lunatic fringe" which clings to the skirts of every sincere reform.

From Theodore Roosevelt by Pearson, Edmund Lester