All that stuff is true, but I think the atheist activism loosing steam has a lot to do with religion in politics and to a lesser extent backwards evangelical sects being on the decline. I'm sure there are people who really want to eliminate religion entirely as if that were possible, but for the most part atheism became attractive because of intelligent design nuts, socially conservative legislation, and the like and a president probably wasn't, but gave a good impression of being, the bad crazy making their faith a burden if not outright threat to the rest of us, and is becoming less attractive as they loose influence. As for the A+ thing, who were mostly just liberal activists and not communists, meh, most activist communities have ties to each other as an artifact of the two party system, so when you need numbers you can get people who don't care very much about your thing to back you up anyway. New Atheism was weird in not wanting to do that.