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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. Next time The Used will have to produce an album where every track is as good as "Take It Away" to keep up.The “lunatic fringe” is the wing of a political or social group that holds more extreme views than the rest of that group. Green Day have turned into a proper rock band with a (gulp!) concept album and Slipknot have added gobbets of melody to their brutal thrash mix. But songs like "Light with A Sharpened Edge", "Hard To Say" and "Lunacy Fringe" sound average at best.Īmerican Rock is highly competitive.Linkin Park have raised the bar high for hook laden pop metal. "Sound Affects And Overdramatics" is heavy thrash.

"Yesterday's Feeling" is just Bert, an acoustic guitar and a glockenspiel. Like Abbey Road for the self harm generation. "Cut Up Angels" combines provocative, explicit lyrics about knives, guns and cutting yourself with happy music, piano and organ. "All That I've Got" is jangly, pounding midtempo rock number with a sweet string arrangement. It's best when Bert mixes it up with thrash metal grunting - like on "Let It Bleed" when he squeals like an over excited pig, or "Listening" where there's plenty of screaming. This kind of singing cuts through the noise but can become cloying. Singer Bert McCracken has a nasal, creamy voice, the classic American whine as invented by Joey Ramone and perfected by Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong. The band pulls out all the stops to raise the tension and excitement, helped by John Feldmann's inventive production.But sadly the rest of the album doesn't live up to this terrific start. It's a corker, with a classic rabble rousing hook, crunchy guitars and a ranting section thrown in just at the right moment. "Take It Away" the first track, explodes out of the speakers. But the songs on In Love And Death aren't strong enough to make it a great record. The Used, who come from Utah, cover all the rock bases with energy and conviction on this, their second album.