It could've ended up worse merely because they didn't take wackos on the right seriously; unlike how they treat those wackos on the left.
General Patton relayed a conversation he had with General Anders of the Polish II Corps during WWII (with of course, the Russians being our allies):
"He told me, laughing, that if his corps got in between the German and Russian army, they would have difficulty in deciding who they would want to fight the most.”
That is how one should treat wackos at either extreme. Treat them as a potential serious threat.