I’ll give credit to Ken Blackwell, the former treasurer and secretary of state in Ohio and one of the most incisive and quotable black conservatives around, for his spot-on characterization of the ugly, brutalist monstrosity sprouting up in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. Blackwell had this to say in a Facebook post:

I think it looks like a totalitarian command center dropped straight out of 1984.

You can’t make this up. This hulking, gray monolith doesn’t look like a tribute to “hope and change.” It looks like the Ministry of Truth from a failed Marxist state. Cold. Ominous. Bureaucratic. The perfect shrine to eight years of weaponized government, broken promises, and elite arrogance.

This isn’t a library. It’s a fortress. And the symbolism couldn’t be clearer.

Blackwell is correct. And he’s also correct when he notes that the sinister box under construction is a pretty good emblem for Obamunism as a whole:

Because let’s be honest: the Obama years weren’t about empowering people… they were about expanding government, punishing dissent, and rewriting the rules to benefit the ruling class. From Benghazi to the IRS scandal, from spying on journalists to turning federal agencies into political tools, the legacy isn’t one of unity. It’s one of control.

And now that legacy is being immortalized in a concrete tomb that blocks out the sky.

Incandescently true.

That awful building, which has been compared to the evil Empire’s All Terrain Walkers from the Star Wars movies, and not without reason, simply screams secrecy, conspiracy, and abuse.

The only windows noticeable from afar are at the top. That sure does signify both Obama’s life and early political career as well as his presidency, doesn’t it? You never did see the sausage getting made where Obama was concerned. All you saw was what the paid liars at the top of the cabal he represented wanted you to see.

The neighbors didn’t want this building built. They’re horrified at the ugly, sinister landmark roughing up their already-challenged landscape.

Blackwell notes that unlike other presidential libraries, this one won’t be run by the National Archives. It’ll be run by the Obama Foundation, which means not only won’t the original documents from the Obama years be there, but the narratives pushed in that building will be Obama’s and Obama’s alone.

We already know those are not true narratives.

Secrecy, conspiracy, and abuse.

It’s in a building like this that one might conceive of the plot to destroy a duly elected president of the United States might be hatched.

As Obama’s library, a monument to American tyranny if ever there was one, begins taking shape we’re now confirming what we all knew about Russiagate. Namely, that Barack Obama and his inner circle had all the best intelligence proving there was no Russian effort to make Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States and disregarded it, pushing what they knew to be a false narrative for the purposes of gaining control over their fellow Americans even despite our choosing to put someone else in charge.

Obama famously told Stephen Colbert — about whom Dave Rubin accurately said, “He tells the machine what it wants to hear” in describing why his show remained on the air as long as it did — that he would prefer to control America from the comfort of his living room with someone else as his patsy. That lack of transparency, that abusive instinct, is confirmed by Obama’s presidential library.

And with the Trump administration finally making noises about getting to the bottom of the Russiagate abuse, not to mention the utter opacity of the Obama puppet Biden administration, in which an autopen controlled by Obama sycophants actually governed the country instead of the non compos mentis figurehead installed by his cabal by use of shocking irregularities in the operation of the 2020 election, what do we get?

We get this…

Statement from Patrick Rodenbush, Spokesperson for President Obama:

Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous… pic.twitter.com/bqa3ffG5Q9

— The Jewish Voice (@TJVNEWS) July 23, 2025

Bizarre and ridiculous? No. This is bizarre and ridiculous…

Obama says that every man needs a gay friend who will teach them how to be empathetic. pic.twitter.com/TOx74lRPkR

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) July 17, 2025

What’s behind those gray concrete walls with respect to this strange statement? We can only speculate, since Obama’s past is shrouded in secrets and lies. When he’s essentially endorsing the grooming of children into the LGBTQ lifestyle, we can only ask whether he’s speaking from personal experience beyond some unnamed gay professor of his at Occidental or Columbia.

Barack Obama was the most significant political figure in American politics for nearly two decades, and on his watch our country moved closer to the society represented by that sinister edifice in Jackson Park than anyone ever would have chosen.

But of course, the Barack Obama we got wasn’t the one we chose, either. The Obama the American people voted for was to have been a racial healer, a voice for the little guy, a peacemaker, and a respite from the growing corporate oligopoly. He was the opposite of those things.

Just like the people of Chicago’s South Side were initially ecstatic that they’d get a presidential library in their midst, until they saw the full measure of what that would be.

Because tyranny never sells itself as the soul-crushing, ugly, and opaque structure it is. It’s always the sunlit uplands covered in roses and clover. Until the unveiling reveals the brutal edifice constructed from secrets, conspiracy, and abuse.

I’d love to say that building ought to be torn down before it can open. As a matter of aesthetics, that’s what should happen.

After all, if statues of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, and even Junipero Serra can be torn down, certainly this could be.

But it can’t come down. It needs to profane the skyline in south Chicago, as a cautionary tale of what America can become if our people aren’t careful.

Yes, it’s a shame for the neighbors in Jackson Park to be saddled with so obnoxious an architectural horror. But Obama is the bigger horror, and it was South Chicago who politically spawned him.

There is a certain justice in that. Though it brings no pleasure to say so.

This is an almost violently anti-American building. It’s awful in ways difficult to fully describe. But as a representation of the man and the political figure it honors, it fits.

And that’s what’s worst of all.