Ben Shapiro

So Barack Obama has been back in the headlines a lot recently.

You'll remember that he went and read books to children with Zoran Mamdani.

And then he sat down with The Late Show, with CBS, with Stephen Colbert.

And, you know, they were jokey jokey because this is what you do.

The thing about Obama is that he is wildly talented, so unbelievably talented that every Democratic politician since the Obama era has lived under Obama's shadow.

He is charming and he is kind of avuncular in his approach.

And here he was with Stephen Colbert.

Well, you know, the bar has changed.

I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we've seen.

OK, so again, Obama is really, really good at this.

Even I, who think that Obama was the death of modern American politics, acknowledge how talented Barack Obama is.

And you can see it in clips like this.

But here is the thing.

People perceive Barack Obama as moderate because he is charming and because he is unthreatening to people in his affect.

But Barack Obama is, was and continues to be a radical leftist, a radical leftist.

The most important clip from this interview with Stephen Colbert is the one where he says there is no divide.

He's not wrong about this.

There is no divide between liberals and leftists.

Many of us have been pointing out that there seems to be a conflict inside the Democratic Party between kind of old school liberals and the hardcore left.

Zoran Mamdani is not reflective of the entire Democratic Party.