This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, September 14, 2015, and Caleb Brown, after

Barack Obama was elected president the anti-war movement in America, dwindled.

Why is that? In his new co-authored book, Party in the Street,

the anti-war movement and the Democratic Party after 9-11, Michael Heaney looks at what goes

into sustaining mass movements and what makes them fade away.

We spoke last week.

A lot of libertarians in 2008 were hopeful when Barack Obama was elected president that at the very least his strong

opposition to in his terms dumb wars would help sort of grease the skids for getting the United States out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

And I think a lot of libertarians are very pleased by the anti-war movement that had originated around Iraq in 2003 and 2004.

But it seems, and many of my colleagues here have complained about it, that after Barack Obama

was elected president, the anti-war movement for, in large part, of just faded away.

So is that true?

Did the anti-war movement post-Brock Obama sort of fade away?

That's largely true.

The anti-war movement didn't go away entirely.

There are still many people who, after Barack Obama's election

and even today, continue to oppose U.S US policies in Iraq and Afghanistan and continue to

fight for the cause of peace.

But those people are small relative to the people that started devoting their attention to other issues besides anti-war activism.

And so after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, the anti-war movement declined, and this was

actually a continuation of a decline that had begun in 2006

when the Democrats regained the House and the Senate in large part on promises

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