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Overton window

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The range of ideas that the public will accept, i.e. those ideas that are not considered too extreme or radical.

    "Nor is he the only one of his kind—on all sides of the spectrum, there are individuals like Mike, shaping what we read, setting the Overton Window in our political debate, stirring things up and laughing (and profiting) as we freak out about it."

Etymology

Named after American political scientist Joseph P. Overton (1960–2003), former vice-president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The concept was popularized by the 2010 bestselling novel The Overton Window.

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