In a country with our history of assassinations, this mostly subterranean sense of rage in a nation awash with guns and with more than its share of deranged souls is scary, dangerous stuff. Progressives warned that the lunatic fringe must be reined in – or else the country would suffer:
On the left, meanwhile, pundits claimed that a “lunatic fringe” in the Republican party hated President Obama with so much fervor that they had managed to infect the rest of their party. This is lunatic, fringe, leftist stuff and it’s likely to make the world a much more dangerous place, rather than less … Exercising his responsibilities as commander in chief, taken to its logical, or illogical, extreme, he could disarm the United States entirely.” “The American people, I trust, believe, pray, have enough common sense to realize this is nuts. Speaking to the right wing publication Newsmax, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy slammed Obama’s plan to drastically cut America’s nuclear arsenal. He will be run by a radical fringe group of lunatics that will destroy our country.”Ī few years earlier, when Barack Obama was president, some analysts on the right called the president’s nuclear policy “lunatic fringe” stuff. “He’s a candidate that will destroy this country, Trump said. In 2020, President Donald Trump told audiences that his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, was a puppet of the radical left and that he was being controlled by extremists. Politicians from both parties like to warn the public that their opponent is being controlled by the “lunatic fringe.” Merriam Webster notes that the phrase was first used in 1913 and is generally used as a pejorative term. The lunatic fringe tends to hold stronger opinions, as well as more fanatical views. Writer(s): Jeph Howard, Quinn S Allman, Robert C Mc Cracken, Branden Lee SteineckertLyrics powered by “lunatic fringe” is the wing of a political or social group that holds more extreme views than the rest of that group. Wake up, my love Never thought you′d make me, break me Now I'm up from below Such a brilliant star you are And will your love keep burning baby Burn a hole right through my eyes All these short times feel like no time I thought you ought to know I′m so far gone now, I been running on empty I'm so far gone now, do you wanna take me on? Do, do you, do you know? Do you know how long I've waited? To look up from below Just to find someone like you? And will your love light burn me baby? Burn a hole right through my heart I think I might just trust you, maybe But I′m not sure I′m not sure I wanna know I'm so far gone now, I been running on empty I′m so far gone now, do you wanna take me high? I'm so far gone now, I been running on empty I′m so far gone now, do you wanna take me on? I think you could make me, girl Could make me and take my life I know you could break me, girl Take all of me all of me, yeah Wake up, my love Never thought you'd make me, break me Now I′m up from below Such a brilliant star you are I'm so far gone now, I been running on empty I'm so far gone now, do you wanna take me high? I′m so far gone now, I been running on empty I′m so far gone now, do you wanna take me on? Do you wanna take me on?
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