swaying the leadership was DY’s take, not ZD’s. ZD can correct me if I am mistaken but the context of permitting the leitzanus was to keep people away from their crazy newfangled hashkofos and I understood ZD (and others?) to be saying that our tone in this leitzanus is going to push people away from US and not deter them from OO. If we want to attract the potential FOLLOWERS to authentic Judaism, we would need to find a more productive way to do so. By slinging manure we attract noone. There needs to be more to the “bashing” that includes explanation for those who don’t understand, and an obvious defending of Torah and disgust for the desecration of it. If you think you can just post leitzanus (as is permitted) without MAKING THE POINT OF SUPPORTING TORAH, then you are just excusing yourself for bad behavior.
And one step further, By not worrying about how we present ourselves, perhaps we are misrepresenting Hashem’s Torah to those masses who are so vulnerable.