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Lunatic fringe (term)

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{{Other uses|Lunatic fringe (disambiguation)}}{{Wiktionary|lunatic fringe}}Lunatic fringe is a term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views. The term was popularized by Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote in 1913 that, "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."^[1]

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1. ^{{cite book|first=William|last=Safire|title=Safire's Political Dictionary|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780195343342|page=405}}

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