- From fringe to mainstream: Far-right breaks through in French election shock https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/far-right-surges-french-election-macron-presidency-turmoil-rcna34365 77 comments worldnews
- Fringe Republicans are not the problem. It’s the party’s mainstream. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/21/fringe-republicans-are-not-the-problem-ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-hearing-hawley/ 8 comments politics
- Capitol Insurrection Shows How Trends On The Far-Right’s Fringe Have Become Mainstream https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/22/capitol-insurrection-shows-how-trends-far-rights-fringe-have-become-mainstream 85 comments politics
- Touting conspiracy theories, Trump welcomes fringe views into the political mainstream https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/touting-conspiracy-theories-trump-welcomes-fringe-views-into-the-political-mainstream/2020/08/20/1d044a6e-e2f7-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_trumpqanon-739pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&itid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_trumpqanon-739pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans 5 comments politics
- Touting conspiracy theories, Trump welcomes fringe views into the political mainstream https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/touting-conspiracy-theories-trump-welcomes-fringe-views-into-the-political-mainstream/2020/08/20/1d044a6e-e2f7-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html 14 comments politics
- The Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief clears the way for fringe candidates to become mainstream https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/trump-conspiracy-theorists-qanon/index.html 7 comments politics
- Can this Riverside County Libertarian make a fringe party mainstream? https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-in-libertarian-jeff-hewitt-riverside-20190205-story.html 2 comments moderatepolitics
- Populism and the internet – a toxic mix shaping the age of conspiracy theories: When we embarked on research into conspiracism five years ago, it seemed a fringe concern. Now, with Trump in office, it’s mainstream https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/25/populism-and-the-internet-a-toxic-mix-shaping-the-age-of-conspiracy-theories 15 comments technology
- Awakening of Spain’s far-right fringe unsettles mainstream parties https://www.ft.com/content/849bac62-d061-11e8-a9f2-7574db66bcd5 98 comments europe
- How Vilification of George Soros Moved From the Fringes to the Mainstream https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/george-soros-bombs-trump.html?action=click&module=top%20stories&pgtype=homepage 10 comments politics
- How Vilification of George Soros Moved From the Fringes to the Mainstream https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/george-soros-bombs-trump.html 42 comments politics
- Mainstream Republicans adopt fringe's fiction http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mainstream-republicans-adopt-fringe-s-fiction-761858627652 7 comments politics
- Trump’s strategy: Pull the fringes into the centre, and mainstream extremism http://www.theglobeandmail.com//opinion/trumps-strategy-pull-the-fringes-into-the-centre-and-mainstream-extremism/article32657532/?click=sf_globefb 13 comments politics
- The Alt-Right vs. Mainstream Conservatism: How a fringe online movement is becoming legitimated through Donald Trump's campaign. http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-alt-right-vs.-mainstream-conservatism/article/2003997 6 comments politics
- Trump mainstreaming fringe right with Breitbart hire http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-mainstreams-fringe-with-breitbart-hire-751367747914 13 comments politics
- Trump brings alt-right fringe into US mainstream http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/trump-brings-alt-right-fringe-into-us-mainstream-1.2769743 12 comments politics
- How a $15 Minimum Wage Went From Fringe to Mainstream http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-29/how-a-15-minimum-wage-went-from-fringe-to-mainstream 254 comments politics
- Thanks to Trump, fringe news enters the mainstream https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/thanks-to-trump-fringe-news-enters-the-mainstream/2015/12/11/292e518c-a01b-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html 11 comments politics
- Not Just Mourdock - Meet 7 Other Republicans Trying to Block Abortion for Rape Victims: The formerly fringe view is becoming mainstream within the GOP http://www.alternet.org/environment/not-just-mourdock-meet-7-other-republicans-trying-block-abortion-rape-victims 32 comments politics
- Time Magazine, in a rare acknowledgement of the 9/11 truth movement, said: “This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality.” http://radicalpantheist.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-and-911.html 11 comments politics
- 'Fringe ideas' are going mainstream in US politics. That's a danger to democracy, extremism experts say. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/26/democracy-politics-extremism-white-supremacy/9213808002/?gnt-cfr=1 34 comments politics
- Politically expedient histories: When fringe threatens to become mainstream in India https://www.southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/politically-expedient-histories-when-fringe-threatens-become-mainstream-india#.YY9aQ-VmWmw.whatsapp 2 comments india
- Inside the Richmond Gun Rights Rally Where the Fringe Right Met Mainstream Conservatives https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/inside-the-richmond-gun-rights-rally-where-the-fringe-right-met-mainstream-conservatives/ 23 comments politics
- Reddît bans Qanon subreddits after months of violent threats -- Reddît was key to Qanon’s emergence from the fringe corners of the internet and into more mainstream conspiracy and far-right media circle https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-bans-qanon-subreddits-after-months-violent-threats-n909061 181 comments worldnews
- 2017 Was the Year BJP Erased the Line Between Fringe and Mainstream Hindutva https://thewire.in/209179/bjp-politics-hindutva-adityanath/ 7 comments india
- Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) On Impeachment: ‘This Is Not The Lunatic Fringe — This Is Mainstream America’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/20/wexler-impeachment/ 65 comments politics
- Lou Dobbs is winning. Month by month the ideas that once prevailed on the angry fringe enter the mainstream and turn into conventional wisdom. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/opinion/27brooks.html?em&ex=1196398800&en=39c4f9fdbdd51400&ei=5087%0A 43 comments politics
- Democrats Drift Toward Kucinich - Dennis Kucinich's views have gone from fringe to mainstream. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=16912151 11 comments politics
- Talk of 'invasion' moves from the fringe to the mainstream of GOP immigration message https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115175247/talk-of-invasion-moves-from-the-fringe-to-the-mainstream-of-gop-immigration-mess 37 comments politics
- Conservative radicalizers are well-coiffed, well-paid — and increasingly dangerous. The language of a dangerous lunatic fringe is creeping closer to the mainstream. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/conservative-radicalizers-are-well-coiffed-well-paid-increasingly-dangerous-n1250028?icid=msd_topgrid 27 comments politics
- Born on the dark fringes of the internet, QAnon is now infiltrating mainstream American life and politics (CNN) https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/what-is-qanon-trnd/index.html 11 comments politics
- Born on the dark fringes of the internet, QAnon is now infiltrating mainstream American life and politics https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/what-is-qanon-trnd/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28rss%3A+cnn+-+most+recent%29 10 comments technology
- Born on the dark fringes of the internet, QAnon is now infiltrating mainstream American life and politics https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/what-is-qanon-trnd/index.html 33 comments technology
- The 2010s' grim legacy? The decade of the far right. In just 10 years, far-right politicians, parties and ideas went from the fringe to the political mainstream - in countries across the world https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/06/2010s-legacy-far-right-politics 201 comments politics
- The Conservative Crusade for Sharia Law - "But here’s the alarming thing: These views are no longer the fringe of American politics. They are increasingly become mainstream conservative fare." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/18/the-conservative-crusade-for-christian-sharia-law.html?via=desktop 10 comments politics
- Hillary Clinton: "Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party" http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/hillary-clinton-alt-right-donald-trump-white-nationalist-hate-groups-1.3736506 40 comments politics
- Bernie Against the Beltway - The mainstream media likes to cast Bernie Sanders as a fringe candidate. Yet the data on individual donors don’t lie: across the country, he generates more enthusiasm than any other candidate — at least, outside the Beltway. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/bernie-sanders-campaign-donor-map-nyt-democratic-presidential-campaign 20 comments politics
- Antislavery Wasn’t Mainstream, Until It Was: After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/05/anti-slavery-abraham-lincoln-abolitionism 37 comments politics
- Ron Paul tells Iowans he is a “mainstream candidate” for 2012 - U.S. Rep. Ron Paul insisted today he’s no longer a fringe candidate and more Americans are embracing his philosophy of personal liberty and limited government. http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/05/31/ron-paul-tells-iowans-he-is-a-mainstream-candidate-for-2012/ 13 comments politics
- 10 Times That BJP Leaders (Not Fringe) Made Anti-Muslim Hate Speeches. Although the Union government has labeled leaders who made Islamophobic remarks as part of the 'fringe' in the face of global outrage, the anti-Muslim rhetoric is too mainstream to ignore and gloss over. https://thewire.in/communalism/bjp-leaders-fringe-anti-muslim-remarks-gulf-countries 11 comments india