• machiavellianRecluse [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    There were still demonstrations after 2012 when Obama proved that he was a liar and wasn’t going to end the war in Iraq.

    Obama strangely ran on being an anti-war president when it came to Iraq, but he was all for the war in Afghanistan despite his big campaign promise that it would be over by 2014.

    He started new ones in his first term. Where were the crowds then? I know from studies that turnouts reduced dramatically after 2008 and they atribute it to partisan effects. I am curious if you have a source on how the post 2012 protests compared with Bush era ones. Also it sounds amazing that Iraq is still the major focus, when you had Syria, Libya, Yemen started by Obama. Syria did get some attention in the 2016 election cycle as far as I can remember.

    Here is the study from 2011 which only can account for term one ofc.