Even when someone like Robert Welch, who was quite an accomplished person - check out his biography - I did a paper on him in college to the consternation of my professor; who founded the John Birch Society.
He was ridiculed from the beginning and had government agent provocateurs sent in multiple times to frame him for being an extremist and a racist. Billboards were taken out to declare they were crazy and evil and his books were blacklisted and not sold in bookstores across the country after Welch took out full page adds in major papers for exposure.
Plenty of conservatives to this day will pile on and say he was a crank and full of it and as bad a the Westboro Baptist church (which I would put forth the hypothesis that they are nothing but a agent provocatuer supported by left wing elitist foundation or government sponsorship to make Christians seem like hateful extremists - why all the press and crazy actions of a handful of leftist lunatics who seem to have plenty of funds and stay out of trouble).
I know - Welch and the JBS called Eisenhower and all the famous insider Washington wise men of WWII complicit and knowing traitors helping communism around the world and setting up America for eventual unity the world into a communist superstructure. I’ve read the book on Eisenhower and I think there is more than enough evidence when looking at the sources and footnotes all from mainstream newspapers and public documents to make a convincing case. Americans would rather have adult myths and fairy tales than accept difficult truths of our past and leaders.
I think history and posterity if they do their homework in a free America of the future would vindicate the JBS and Welch as being on the ball and correct about 90% and plus of their views and analysis of 20th century politics and economics and related treasonous actions of various people.
Unfortunately if any comparable group were to arise today - which I doubt, the closest thing is the Tea Party which is too scattered and amorphous and already co-opted by those who would use it as controlled dissent or controlled opposition as was done in the Soviet Union and likely other communist hellholes.
Sorry for my poor grammar and writing I have other stuff to do today and am rushing.
If any groups arise - they are infiltrated by cranks and will be destroyed before they have a chance. Everyone here I’m sure is exasperated as it seems there is little outlet for real voices and change. One would think with sited like Freerepublic and the internet people and movements could get organized and make a fuss. I think we are beat down and people can’t really afford a vacation to Washington and we’ve seen how little can come about from that. The largest gathering ever was a pro life gathering at Washington monument I think back in like ‘97-99. The media pretty much ignored it and gave like a few second mention and picture while spending the entire weekend giving coverage showing the few thousand Gay and Lesbians that were there in the days prior to the pro-life gathering. I’m not kidding - largest on US history and ignored and showing sexual deviant in drag cursing Christians instead.