After the failed Munster revolution, which is recorded in history, how was the religion of anabaptism able to flourish and survive?
How were they able to attract new converts when the two anabaptist prophets Bernhard Rothman and John Leiden proved themselves to be such ineffective leaders and lead to the people of Munster nearly starving to death and turning against Leiden?
Munster did not represent the only branch of Anabaptist thought... in fact I'm not sure you could ever call it the primary Anabaptist branch. But it certainly was a spectacular and memorable group.
Far more common were what became the modern offshoots like the Amish and Mennonites. These groups while they believed in charismatic gifts, did not believe in modern prophets. And they certainly did believe in Rothman and Leiden. After the failure of the Munster rebellion the violent radical branch of Anabaptist thought did largely die out. And the pacifist branch continued.