DI in disarray? demoralized? Who in the world has the author been talking to? I don't get that sense AT ALL!
I don't know about "disarray," but there is a certain desperation to the movement, after getting caught in an ill-advised end run around the Constitution.
There's a reason creationists haven't come out against the series of lies told in the name of their cause, after all. We don't yet know why that should be so, but I suspect they're so short of allies they can't afford to drop any, not even the perjurers and crooks.