I worked with a left wing agitator type once, and she once said something that I thought was profoundly wise: Never let somebody else define you.
Words and notions like “extremeist” and “right-wing” and such have been cheapened from overuse, as has the increasingly impotent “racist.”
I think, or at least I hope, that the majority of Americans have moved beyond the effects the Progressives hope these words have on us.
Progressives are the sort of "fringe" we can do without.