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If you are referring to Birchers and anti-Semites, yes NR has helped cleanse the conservative movement of such trash.

I realize that Oregon isn't the center of the conservative world, but there are still active John Birchers here. About a year before the last Presidential campaign kicked off I attended an "End the Fed" rally and several of the people there were from the JBS.

I'm not familiar with the history of the JBS in any detial. I'd only really heard of them mentioned in passing as a popular group at the height of the McCarthy era who were adamently anti-communist. Why do you call them trash?

BTW: I should be clear that the people pictured above were at the 'End the Fed' rally, but are not necessarily the JBS members. I remember one of them was a woman, don't know about any others.

‘I’m not familiar with the history of the JBS in any detial. I’d only really heard of them mentioned in passing as a popular group at the height of the McCarthy era who were adamently anti-communist. Why do you call them trash?’

One, their analysis of the situation, including the idea that Eisenhower was deliberately aiding the communists to take over the world, because he was an agent of that party, was so foolish that it damaged anti-communism, by sending us after non-exist enemies and making us look like idiots.
Two, after the Goldwater campaign, they came out for George Wallace, and fought against Goldwater Conservatives, allying themselves with liberal Republicans to make sure Goldwater Republicans were defeated. A prominent example of this was in New Jersey, where the state Goldwater Chairman was smeared as an anti-semite (his mother was Jewish), by Birchers he had promoted within the organization, who formed an alliance with Rockefeller Republicans to take over the state and county YR organizations. There were public purge trials in which the conservatives were not actually called anti-semites, but just of being a part of the conservative group (called ‘Rat-Finks’). Peoples careers were ruined because of these charges. It is part of the reason the NJ GOP has been so liberal since then.