Extremism
239. Extremism (See also Fanaticism.)
- drys advocates of Prohibition in America. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 41]
- Jacobins rabidly radical faction; principal perpetrators of Reign of Terror. [Fr. Hist.: EB, V: 494]
- John Birch Society rabid right-wing group ideologically similar to the Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 576]
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group espousing white supremacy takes law into its own hands. [Am. Hist.: EB, V: 935]
- McCarthy, Senator Joseph (1909–1957) anti-Communist zeal frequently resulted in injustice. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 522]
- Mikado of Japan, the demands Ko-Ko execute one person a month. [Br. Opera: The Mikado, Magill I, 591–592]
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