Just what the world needed: another five-part Netflix docuseries executive-produced by Tom Hanks to lecture us on how bad America is. "The American Experiment" dropped today, and right on cue, Hillary Clinton is back on our screens to deliver her annual sermon on why the U.S. Constitution is an "abomination" because she managed to lose an election ten years ago. In the trailer, Clinton claims she thinks the Electoral College is trash "for obvious reasons," with the obvious reason being that she fumbled the bag in 2016 against a reality TV star and has been locked in an eternal cope cycle ever since.

This Hanks-fueled production attempts to mark 250 years of U.S. independence by letting a parade of establishment elites—including Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence, and Al Gore—explain why our foundational institutions are defective. Directed by Brian Knappenberger, the series is essentially a high-budget therapy session for politicians who can't believe the peasants in flyover states actually have a say in who runs the country. Rather than adjusting their unpopular policies, the elite's solution is to demand we tear down the entire 1787 constitutional system.

The Electoral College, established under Article II of the Constitution, was designed specifically to prevent highly populated urban centers from steamrolling the rest of the nation. But for the modern Democratic Party, this basic federalist safeguard is treated like a personal insult. Since they can't easily dominate the heartland, progressives have waged a non-stop PR campaign to convince the public that a representative republic is somehow undemocratic. Clinton’s latest Netflix rant is just the latest chapter in this ongoing crying fest.

We've been subjected to this exact grievance tour for nearly a decade. In her 2017 memoir, hilariously titled "What Happened," Clinton called it "the god-forsaken Electoral College." She then ran to Anderson Cooper on CNN to whine that the system "no longer works" and is "an anachronism that was designed for another time." The message is always the same: "one person, one vote" is the only thing that matters, but only when it yields the result the establishment wanted in the first place.

Before the 2024 election went down, Clinton tried to pre-cope by telling The 19th that Democrats are always the "underdog" because of the "Electoral College staring at you." But that excuse ran straight into a woodchipper when Donald Trump went out and beat Kamala Harris in both the Electoral College and the national popular vote anyway. It turns out that when your policies are completely out of touch, you can lose under any set of rules—leaving the entire progressive establishment without their favorite talking point.

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) also pops up in the trailer to add her own brand of historical revisionism, claiming "the founders themselves were not in love with the Electoral College" and calling it "defective from the beginning." Lofgren complains that "a minority of the population... is ruling the majority," which is a wild way of saying she’s mad that the Constitution successfully prevents New York and California from deciding every single election. It’s almost as if the founders knew exactly what they were doing when they set up a republic.

To make matters even funnier, while Hillary is busy attacking the rules of the game, she’s also busy backstabbing her own teammates. She recently did an interview calling Joe Biden’s 2024 run a "terrible mistake" and saying he should have passed the torch, completely reversing her previous public endorsements. This kind of back-alley political maneuvering shows that the establishment's loyalty is completely fake, and they'll happily throw their own guys under the bus when the power starts slipping away.

Ultimately, "The American Experiment" shows that the political class will never forgive the founders for creating a system that forces them to actually talk to working-class Americans in rural communities. They want a system where they can just harvest votes in major cities and ignore the rest of the country. Hillary Clinton calling the Constitution an "abomination" isn't a principled critique; it's just the ultimate establishment insider mad that the rules didn't bow to her coronation.

Sources: * National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). "The Electoral College." * Federal Election Commission. "Official 2016 Presidential General Election Results." * United States Constitution. "Article II, Section 1."