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
If the services were to set any such unreasonable standard for the commissioned body, all would shortly move over into the lunatic fringe.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
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