In 2004, presidential candidate John Edwards declared, “There are two Americas.” His point was to divide, as Democrats always do. Barack Obama seems to be carrying on that tradition. As illustrated in his interview with CBS entertainer Stephen Colbert, there are two Americas — and one of them is the fantasyland in Obama’s mind.

His hypocritical gaslighting was off the charts. We won’t go over the entire 25-minute interview, which is part of Colbert’s swan song at CBS and a promotion for Obama’s atrociously ugly library. Instead, I’ll pick three particularly egregious examples.

But first, I’ll poke fun at CBS News for its own gaslighting: “Historically, former presidents have mostly avoided public criticism of their successors, but Mr. Trump has frequently criticized Obama and his policies as well as the Biden presidency.”

Yes, historically, former presidents retired from public view, not weighing in on the matters facing a current administration. Yet Trump wasn’t the first to depart from that. Jimmy Carter pushed the boundaries of that niceness, and Obama, who spent most of his presidency blaming George W. Bush for everything, threw it out the window entirely after leaving office.

Obama’s smear protocol is exactly the setup for this entire interview, and the three comments I’ll highlight are classic examples of projecting your own faults onto someone else.

“We can survive a lot — bad policy, funky elections, there’s a bunch of stuff that we can overcome,” Obama opined. “We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system, the awesome power of the state. You can’t have a situation in which, whoever’s in charge of the government, starts using that to go after their political enemies, or reward their friends.”

He continued, “The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants to prosecute. The norm is — the idea is that the attorney general is the people’s lawyer. It’s not the president’s consiglieri.”

Phew, where to begin. Obama grossly weaponized the Justice Department, though it’s true that he didn’t post in all capital letters about it on social media. And he didn’t say, “Attorney General Eric Holder, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, please go after my political enemies.” They simply knew what to do with no paper trail going back to the boss.

As Holder infamously put it, “I’m still the president’s wingman.”

Obama would like you to forget about the Russia collusion hoax, which was seeded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and perpetuated by Obama’s DOJ and FBI. That fraud nearly cost Trump the 2016 election, and it hamstrung the first three years of his first term, including one impeachment. And it was entirely fabricated.

If that’s not “politicization of the criminal justice system,” I don’t know what is. Or, as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche responded, “If you’re sitting in a glass house, you ought not throw stones.”

Next up was the military.

“Don’t politicize our military,” the former lecturer-in-chief declared. “As president, you are commander-in-chief. You are responsible for directing our military. But there had been a whole series of norms that were in place to ensure that you weren’t trying to make that military loyal to you as opposed to the Constitution and the people of the United States.”

Norms. Funny that he should mention that word because he tossed them all out in favor of left-wing social engineering. The military under Obama — and even more so under his former sidekick, Joe Biden — became a petri dish for experimenting with the Left’s sex cult. Under Biden, thousands of healthy, young service members were discharged because they refused to take a novel vaccine that Biden had thoroughly politicized.

By contrast, the military under Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth is refocused on readiness and winning wars.

Moreover, if Obama is going to complain about politicizing things, I could also bring up his use of the IRS to persecute his political opponents, which might have been decisive in the 2012 election. Again, no paper trail leading back to Obama; Lois Lerner and his other bureaucratic henchmen simply knew what to do.

His administration also surveilled journalists and weaponized banks against Second Amendment groups. Then Biden’s administration pushed social media censorship, persecuted pro-lifers, and dragged Trump and many of his team to court and, in some cases, jail. Biden personally approved the FBI raid of Trump’s estate at Mar-a-Lago.

Finally, let’s consider Obama’s compassionate prescription for healing what ails the Republican Party. You see, he just wants what’s best for the GOP.

“I’m worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democratic Party,” he lamented. “I’d love a loyal opposition. I’d love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways … but believed in Rule of Law and judicial independence and empirical evidence and science and wasn’t constantly tapping into our worst impulses. And there has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return.”

Should we return to when Bush was to blame for everything, and also a Nazi? Or how about when Ronald Reagan was a Nazi? Or maybe when Barry Goldwater was a Nazi?

Democrats have been falsely smearing Republicans as fascists and Nazis for 60 years, but somehow, they always want to go back to the last guy during the current one’s administration. It’s almost like they’re not being honest — you might say they’re “tapping into our worst impulses.”

Of course, if you have a couple of hours to waste on fiction, you can peruse the lengthy Wikipedia left-wing tirade titled “Donald Trump and fascism.”

In fact, that’s actually just the problem. It’s not that no one listens to Obama anymore. It’s that millions do. The Trump-deranged Left and even many Americans who are unknowingly caught up in Leftmedia propaganda increasingly think Trump is a fascist. Or maybe just like King George III.

Like Colbert, Obama is entertaining an audience with a nonsensical version of events that they are unable to distinguish from reality.

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