They were mainly spot-on (hindsight), but like everything else there were some wingnuts aboard. There always are.
WFB made it a point to take them down to enable a "bigger tent" Conservative movement.
Worked for a while, but the WFB crowd had some wingnuts of their own. Just look at NR now. Ahoy maties….
Post 11.... what is WFB ??
We see this today with the "Q" adherents, and lone wolf shooters claiming maga. Necessary social change (i.e. peaceful revolution as envisioned by the Founders) is hard, very hard. It's an uphill slog, and one crazed loon can push decades of effort back down the slope, or off a cliff. That's why today's jackboots are trying to kill all methods of grassroots organizing, such as social media platforms that allow conservative speech.