No Red States, No Blue States, Just Blood

Every time I read a post or article from a mainstream leftist, I endure the five stages of grief. 

First comes denial, that something so deranged, so tone-deaf, so nakedly divisive could have been stated publicly in the first place. Then rage, that anyone could feel entitled to say such things at all. Then bargaining — a naive, fleeting hope that if I just explained it calmly, they’d stop spreading the lies. When that fails, I am hit with a wave of sadness at the state of this country, and the Left’s iron refusal to reflect. And finally, I accept, again and again, the reality of the leftist mind. They are unchanging, unreasonable, and utterly immune to consequence. Sighs. Scrolls.

All of this happens within 30 seconds of reading a typical lefty post, and it happened again Sunday afternoon, when our feeble, smug, former divider-in-chief Barack Hussein Obama took to his social media accounts to pretend that he had absolutely no idea what could have motivated another attempt on President Trump’s life.

Yes Barack. It’s a mystery, wrapped in a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a riddle! Bangs head against wall repeatedly.

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that the gunman described Trump as a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” — the exact language parroted by Obama’s closest allies, and spelled out explicitly in the shooter’s own manifesto. No, no. Couldn’t be.

Obama has to feign ignorance, because the alternative is honesty, and an honest tweet from Barack Obama would read something like: “For the last eighteen years, my party and I have systematically divided this country, using inflammatory rhetoric, identity-based grievance-stoking, and outright lies to make you all hate each other. This has culminated in a surge of Left-wing violence. Sorry!” 

He’ll never write that post.

Instead, he’ll continue to play dumb, while our sitting president, his cabinet, and virtually every prominent conservative in the country fear for their physical safety. That’s the daily reality of American political life, and Obama helped build it.

For my younger friends who have only ever known the media’s soft-focus, golden-hour portrait of the Obama years: they lied to you.

In 2008, he promised healing. “There are no red states or blue states. Only the United States.”

Members of the media will often reminisce on the “good ol’ days” when he was in office. But were they all that good, or did they foment much of the hatred we see online and in reality today?

Obama repeatedly injected race into incidents before the full facts would emerge, knowingly amplifying identity-based grievances. When they arrested Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at his home, Obama declared the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” before a shred of evidence supported that conclusion. He personalized the Trayvon Martin shooting by saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” a calculated statement not meant to comfort, but to inflame. He amplified the Ferguson narrative as it was still collapsing under its own contradictions. He pitted “the 99%” against job creators and entrepreneurs, fueling the kind of class warfare that made half the country feel like villains in their own economy. His administration’s IRS targeted conservative groups. “Punish our enemies” were the exact words he used to describe political opponents, revealing how he viewed the 60 million Americans who disagreed with him.

What started as a promise of unity became a master class in division.

And the movement he midwifed — Black Lives Matter, the mainstreaming of political rage, the normalization of viewing your political opponents as existential threats rather than fellow citizens — did not evaporate when he left office. It metastasized.

Far from becoming a graceful elder statesman, Obama remains one of the most actively divisive voices in American politics. In recent speeches, he has attacked the Trump administration as a “clown show” of “lawlessness and recklessness,” dripping with “mean-spiritedness and just plain craziness,” while framing Republicans as an existential threat to democracy itself. Instead of calling for calm when conservatives are literally fearing for their lives, he continues to pour gasoline on the very cultural fire he helped ignite.

The man who once pledged to heal the nation can’t stop picking at the wound.

Of course, Barack Obama is not solely to blame for the toxic state of American politics. The American Left has spent the better part of a decade poisoning it alongside him.

Kathy Griffin posed for a photo holding a bloody, severed mock-up of President Trump’s head. Tim Walz — the almost-vice president of the United States, and current governor of Minnesota — publicly wished death on Trump. Sitting members of Congress have declared they’re going to “bury” Republicans under the Capitol. Left-wing cultural figures now openly platform voices calling for the murder of “capitalist motherf*ckers,” romanticizing political violence, and explicitly advocating for Trump’s assassination. And pop culture — just downstream from politics — has followed suit. Jimmy Kimmel, days before the most recent attempt on Trump’s life, delivered a fake White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech with the punchline: “Mrs. Trump, you have the glow of an expectant widow.”

Did no one ever tell him that if he can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all?

No one should be shocked that “progressive terrorists” exist. Least of all Barack Obama, as he was instrumental in creating the conditions that produce them. 

But what is shocking is the Left’s refusal to acknowledge how their incessant denigration and demonization of conservatives has led to conservatives being shot at, doxed, or attacked.

As someone who has been harassed by the online Left, I can tell you exactly what his faux-bewilderment feels like from the receiving end. It feels like someone peeing on your leg and telling you it’s raining. And it sends me into my 30-second grief spiral every time.

The truth is that Obama does not want the violence to stop. He hopes that one day he’ll wake up to the “threat” extinguished by his foot soldiers and his work finally done.

That’s the progressive project. Campaign as a moderate, rule as a radical, divide and conquer, and leave the country more broken — and bloodied — than you found it.