and that right there should red flag the piece was not worth of a read.
Bernstein and you are the perfect the identarian so much so you would post something like this. His thesis that the ACLU is dead because they didn't support his/your opinion/identity in politics or what you think is an ACLU mission is one sided. In fact, you and many on this board wouldn't support the ACLU in any of their decisions or support of litigating civil liberties - of which you mistake for, they're going after your rights because you don't like the causes they litigate and that word/idea of "liberties" means something negative if not evil in your definition of being an American or what American's can have - Freedom from Gov't chains.
Lost to you in all this is what the ACLU actually means to American's and the constitution.
Somehow you think all those who support the ACLU agree with all of their choices for litigation - it's not so, but the base of their existence to support the Constitution and the liberties of all Americans is always worth supporting.
Long live the ACLU