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Lunatic fringe   Listen
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lunatic fringe  n.  The members of a political or social group espousing extreme, fanatical, or seemingly irrational views.





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... critics as E.L. Godkin who put so much emphasis on the failures of the reformers as to overshadow their positive achievements. Moreover, there were the well-meaning but impracticable people who constituted what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "lunatic fringe" ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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... soon called the Bull Moose Party, attracted the usual group of reformers, and some cranks. Each new party does this. Roosevelt had, many years before, spoken of the "lunatic fringe" which clings to the skirts ...
— Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Lester Pearson
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