"Mainstream" is more in the nature of belief than how many people there are. The dangerous fringe is a whole lot bigger than it used to be, but they are also much louder than they used to be. At least they get better press coverage, and the way to do that is to be as outrageous as possible. Then and now, the mainstream didn't really get all that much coverage because they weren't constantly trying to insert themselves into the political system the way the fundy-fringe does.

Don Firth