The majority of Americans were opposed to communism around the time the Patriot movement appeared .
The patriot movement began roughly around 1958 with the formation of the John Birch Society and most Americans ' opposition to communism and the United Nations , then the gradual addition of other movements to the constellation of conservative and libertarian causes centering around the issues of national sovereignty , the United States Constitution , individual liberties including the Bill of Rights , and American exceptionalism .
Patriot movement