I think something psychological happened to ABOs when they finally decided to support Romney. (Allowing that some of them always were secret Mitt-bots.)
I think they discovered that it was easier to go with the cultural flow and become new-age republicans along with Coulter, Andrew Sullivan, et al. They could then argue for fiscal responsibility and jettison social issues under a libertarian premise of “every man do what he wants.”
The terrible thing about that is the clear indication that cultural strength leads to financial strength leads to military strength.
They are contributing to the undermining of the USA, and the result will be a socialism that MUST lead to a dictatorship, because a nation of government dependents ARE serfs who don’t work.
The powers that be must recognize at some point that they can’t have that. They will then acquire special powers that enable them to force work out of the serfs, and then they will both the bosses and the rulers.
It is inevitable.