My outspoken Libertarian brother is as far from "socially liberal" as it is possible to be! It is basically "every [man] for himself", too bad starve if you can't find & keep a good job, because that would be all your own fault.

They'll be back in the fold in no time. GOP has short memories. And they say an elephant never forgets.

They really do have nowhere to go, which is why I think most of them will crawl back to the Repubs, who know they will... What they really need is a new third party that is openly fascist, that's where they belong. We'll probably see something like that at least attempted, with a name like Patriot Party or something like that. They remind me of the ruling party in the Purge series of movies, The New Founding Fathers Of America Party.