ACLU has had some interesting re-alignments recently, so it doesn't come out quite as tongue in cheek as perhaps intended.

https://www.vox.com/2017/8/20/16167870/aclu-hate-speech-nazi...

and this happened specifically because it was pressed to do so by people who, for the most part, subscribe to the same ideology as the editorial board of "Gender, Place and Culture" (author is a "Critical Race Studies fellow at the U.C.L.A. School of Law"):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/aclu-first-amendm...

Then you have activist students actually shutting down ACLU presenters on the campus because “liberalism is white supremacy”:

http://flathatnews.com/2017/10/02/black-lives-matter-protest...

So yes, it's definitely affecting things.

you might be underestimating it as well.