Yes, that’s a great point. Though I wasn’t necessarily talking about whether or not the support was public knowledge as much as the fact that the Republic has been painted to be on its way towards corruption and seemingly refusing to listen to Leia. Most likely, the Resistance has the support of some powerful members of the senate, but not the Senate/Republic as a whole.

I think this is probably why some people were confused about what exactly the role of the Resistance was. It seems pretty reasonable to assume at first that they are an official special ops type group based on the crawl and lack of other information (until Hux’s line).