Will the real ACLU please stand up? Tom Smith

Showing my age with that title.  But, couldn’t a strong argument be made that by squashing internal dissent, spying on employees, kicking out revisionistes, etc. etc. the ACLU is remaining faithful to its roots?  At the end of the day, my impression is that it is a hard left organization, and the Skokie affair was a deviation, which the ACLU leadership is determined not to repeat.  My one exposure to the leadership of the D.C. ACLU convinced me, back when I was a real lawyer, that those guys would be lucky to spell liberty right.  Not only that, but it had to be, and I say this with many years of Catholic education under my belt, the most humourless group of people I have ever encountered.