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

Now maybe all this is just the lunatic fringe acting out and nothing will come of it.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021

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

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018

And, no doubt, an impartial observer might have detected among them traces of that "lunatic fringe," which Roosevelt himself had long ago humorously remarked clung to the skirts of every reform.

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