Why were anti-Iraq War protests never this weird?

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The A.N.S.W.E.R. tankies were major organizers of Iraq War protests, but the protestors themselves were a very eclectic mix ideologically. 

There are a few major developments in protest / activist culture since then. Intersectional coalitional politics is part of it: the idea that all social justice causes align and depend on each other. This was around before but it's become fundamental now in almost every activist group, promoting more cohesive ideological alignment, and thus a greater sense of solidarity and propensity to group-think.

Meanwhile the Occupy movement gave rise to a lot of the practices were are seeing now in how protests are conducted, resurrecting practices of 60s radicals and elaborating them further. These were then further developed in the protests of the past decade that made demands in the name of racial and sexual identities, and ultimately the BLM protests of 2020.