Groups that actually wanted to fight Communism and take a stand for God, the Stars and Stripes, not allow the American nationality to get buried under a tsunami of immigrants, etc. like the John Birch Society were ruthlessly demonized and driven out of the public sphere by these asshats.

The more you read from the JBS the more you see how shockingly correct they were about most things. The only things they were wrong about were predictions of a Racial Socialist state within the US, but only because it didn't form, not because there weren't Communists actively attempting to do it.

Even Goldwater mentioned that the JBS was aggressively making sure that all of their information was accurate and well cited.

JBS was right about damn near everything.