Please don’t take my post to mean that “reprobate” is rare these days. Sadly it doesn’t seem to be.
The time seems to rapidly approaching when once again only by the power of the Holy Spirit can enable men to confess Christ ... whereas for a long time now, in America at a minimum and especially in politics (as you note about Obama) it has actually been not just easy but worldly-beneficial to fake it.
My point was, and I’m sorry if I was unclear, that those who have identifiably should have known the Gospel, or at least had valid information about the same, are potentially in a different danger zone than those whose knowledge was at best superficial, if not nothing but actual strawman.
I generally agree. I don’t think the term can be limited to one side or another. Having said that, I understand the struggles of faith quite well (unfortunately).
God bless.