Firstly, folk music should be set back a hundred years...maybe even a way more. What passes for folk music today really isn't. Much of it is really good music, but not necessarily folk.

Secondly, was what the Legendaires or other bubble-gum folk groups did worse than the Weavers backed by the full might of the Gorden Jenkins Orchestra? Even an ill wind does some good; being blacklisted saved the Weavers from themselves.