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.
Oh, god don't get me started on the whole A+ thing. No, the influx that I am talking about was about 1-2 years before that. I was gone by the time A+ happened; being the angry Atheist ass on the internet was no longer what I wanted to be when I grew up. And yea, Obama, no matter what you may think of him as President, really put a damper on the wacky religion in government stuff. Most of that activism is at the state level now, fighting school boards, etc. We still have Cruz, Santorum, Brownback, Rand Paul et al to deal with, but the national stuff in the last few years has thankfully gone nowhere. There are still hard core groups here in Kentucky not on the margins, but their power seems to be waning. At least the guys calling Catholics sodomites and brides of Satan are not able to win primaries this year.
Oh, I'm aware the fight's not over at the state level, I live in a red state too. But even there, there's a desperation to it. Wingnuts have become bad for business, they're not useful idiots anymore. The bathroom brouhaha is a joke and everyone knows it, dinosaurs giving the finger to the oncoming asteroid.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/04/public_schools_are_visiting_ken_ham_s_creation_museum.html I think we are winning the war, but the battles are many. My tax dollars are going to this abortion of a museum to build a life-sized ark park. With the new governor, the hope is that the state runs out of cash and they have to recall the tax breaks they are trying to hand them.