Will these RW groups survive their leaders' demise?

[Archae]

I was thinking about Bretibart.com, now that Breibart is dead, they seem to be flailing around, and headed for the dumpster.

Good.

What about other groups?

Like JT Ready's anti-Mexican neo-Nazi group?

And what will happen to Free Republic when RimJob finally croaks?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Some will, some will not

depends on internal organization and how much they depend from the leader.

Nazis, J.T's little fun group, they tend to survive, or split and come back.

They are like well... impossible, almost, for them to go away.

[jberryhill]

2. The groups, not so much...

The remnants of membership are generally ripe pickings for the next thing to come along.

But, overall, there is something, um, maybe subject to misinterpretation, when it comes to speculating about the consequences of the deaths of various individuals.

[Archae]

3. I have noticed about RW groups...

They need a charismatic, authoritarian leader.

And if that leader is taken out of the picture due to any reason, the followers are aimless and as you say, easy pickings.

[jberryhill]

4. They just re-coalesce

Glenn Beck 9/12 Patriots picked up remaing pieces of the Christian Coalition, which had pulled together bits of the Moral Moajority, and so on.

They've made de facto John Birchers out of people who never heard of the John Birch Society.

[alittlelark]

5. They will be assimilated into other hate groups.

Resistance is futile when ones brain is fearful and small.

The borg surround us.

[Skittles]

6. F*** NO

they are DITTOHEADS - someone tells them what to think

[Kaleva]

7. The organizations tend to die when the leader meets his demise

Former members either form a new group or groups or attach themselves to other existing ones. Unless it has a method in place, that's accepted and supported by a majority of members, that deals with succession.

[Historic NY]

8. They can't figure out how many crappers they need at events what else would you expect...

now that they don't have a leader.