These entities didn't own their own platforms? Really? Maybe they weren't handed a platform on a plate, like we are today, but that is entirely the point: I t

These entities didn't own their own platforms? Really? Maybe they weren't handed a platform on a plate, like we are today, but that is entirely the point: I think they did have their own publications and financed their own media. That's how they became a movement in the first place. You can't get mass acceptance at scale from your target demographic without building a platform. I think the examples you gave are of people who struck out to build their own platforms, and did so successfully. This is why we even know about them in the first place, thankfully.