Extremism is a mentality; a black and white worldview.

It’s a willingness to go too far to meet one’s objectives — to violate moral boundaries in pursuit of one’s aims.

Relation to:

• NRA, GOP
• Dominionism and Evangelicism
• authoritarianism
• fundamentalist thought
• outliers in a distribution where most people have a mix of moderate views; unusually narrow-minded
• associated with anger; hostility; violence
• vs. the Middle Path, Goldilocks Zone, the virtuous mean
• thrill seeking
• addiction cycles and addictive behavior
• emotional immaturity and arrested development
• narcissism & Cluster B
• Horseshoe Theory