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My experience is the opposite. The worst advocates tend toward the popular ideas.
After all, they became the worst advocates by a complete inability to think straight. So they tend to pick their ideas to champion by popularity.
Also, the majority is the audience for everyone, just because it is big. People defending the mainstream grandstand to the mainstream, while people with rare views try to recruit from from the mainstream. People with rare views know what the counterarguments are going to be; they pass the ideological Turing test. "privilege"