No the inroads are being made because some people don't understand that lunatic rhetoric does not substitute for wisdom and careful articulation of their views.
The RATs have been losing of late precisely because their rhetoric has been dominated by far Left screwballs. The GOP will meet the same fate if its rhetoric is dominated by Right wing screwballs.
Silence and effective tactics have been the secret of Delay's success. Too bad he forgot the first in favor of babbling nonsense.
Those whom the Gods will destroy they first make mad.
I'm not talking about lunatic rhetoric. I'm talking about righteous wrath instead of trying to find common ground with those same lunatics.
The spineless get everything they "ask" for.