> Even when Obama was president and had both houses of congress, I don’t recall headlines about ‘far left’ stuff.

You mean the same Obama whose signature legislative accomplishment was passing a healthcare reform law modeled on a proposal originally made by the insurance industry and embraced by the Republican Party as an alternative to the proposed Clinton healthcare reform?

Yeah, there's a reason that there wasn't much talk about the "far left" except from very openly right-wing partisan sources.

Maybe it's because Obama was center-right?

everywhere except America Obama would be right/far-right :)