While I can see the value of anonymity, even if I don't fully agree with it; their uniform is counter-productive.

Their uniform looks like a mix of KKK with the white face mask and a paramilitary. They look like how a fictional movie would portray a "right wing militia".

If they want their ideas to be heard and accepted, there are better ways than looking like a movie studio take on what a white nationalist who's covering their face would come up with.

Have a outfit that evokes 1776 and patriotism, not a military force.

Anytime people wear stuff that evokes military we file them away as militants and people to avoid. This is true also of communist revolutionaries who wear a beret on their college campus in the 1960s and are trying to tell you the socialists have the right idea as their military jacket has black panther patches and whatnot.

It's just not productive. You know why Jared Taylor is effective? Because they'd love for Jared Taylor to seem extreme and indeed his ideas are extreme in terms of the current overton window. But he presents his ideas calmly, explains the logic of them, and does it with a smile. So people can write him off as a "racist" but they still go home with their tail tucked between their legs because they couldn't dismantle his arguments nor could they find any issues with his conduct.

The problem with the patriot front isn't merely that they're anonymous. There's many bloggers, tweeters, etc who remain anonymous sharing controversial ideas until they get doxxed and then sometimes still after getting doxxed, and some who never get doxxed. Anonymity isn't the main issue. It's the way they choose to be anonymous feels too convenient to the mainstream media views about the right.