Sign of the Times
In 1965, National Review identified conservative alternatives to the John Birch Society. If only they could do that today.
NROriginals just put up their 1965 anti-JBS articles. One of the questions they answer is, well, if not the JBS, where can I go instead:
Q. Where can a member of the John Birch Society to go to conduct anti-Communist activist in concern with other patriotic members of the community?
Their answer?
A. There is no organization presently constituted to undertake exactly the same set of activities as the John Birch Society undertakes: which is not to say that the John Birch Society is better than nothing. It is — for reasons shown — worse than nothing. However, the American Conservative Union, the Free Society Association, are new organizations free of Mr. Welch's fantasies.
Oh, well.