I’m reading the biography of my distant relative, William Henry Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensible Man. The Democrats labeled Seward an “extremist”, because of his uncompromising stand against slavery.
Nowadays, the Democrats (and the media, but I repeat myself) call you an extremist if you advocate slightly slowing the rate of increase of spending money that we don’t have. They also call you a hostage taker, a terrorist, a suicide bomber, and a domestic abuser.