I think also you have to consider that these folks have been watching big government Crony Capitalism at work for Wall Street and corporations for a long time. Eventually it starts to sink in that there IS no free market. And if that’s the case, the next logical move is to tilt the un-free market in a direction more in my favor.
No matter who holds the reigns of big government, there will be cronyism. It is only human nature. Be they college professors or evangelical ministers, big government will corrupt all of them. My sorrow today is that all efforts on behalf of small government and free markets have been a complete failure. Even most conservatives today do not believe in them.