Originally Posted by CoolMikey

"Nowadays, the term is mostly used in a political or religious sense, for an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied shared social consensus) to be far outside the (acceptable) mainstream attitudes of society."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremism

Right wing ideology is getting majority of the votes across the country in most state, senate, house, etc elections, so clearly it's not "outside the mainstream attitudes of society."

I'm not sure what is hard to understand, if their position was "extreme" no one would vote for it, and the person holding that position wouldn't be voted in.