The former First Lady, former Secretary of State, and two-time presidential loser gathered with the Council on Foreign Relations crowd in East Hampton on Monday to offer her thoughts on the state of the Democratic Party. When asked about the socialist takeover — the DSA candidates winning primaries, the communism-endorsing Hasan Piker dictating the terms of Democratic Senate nominations, the DSA co-chair confirming on live television that she wants to abolish the Pentagon — Hillary Clinton called it an “experiment.”

Her exact words: “The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of an experiment… I think that’s healthy.”

Let’s mark the moment. The woman who ran the most expensive presidential campaign in history on a platform of centrism and institutional stability just told a room of wealthy Hamptons liberals that her party hosting candidates who want to abolish prisons, borders, the Senate, and the United States military in its current form is healthy experimentation. Oh, and abolish wealth, too — except for those few power elite.

This is the party’s elder stateswoman. This is the person who is supposed to provide the institutional wisdom that tells young voters why socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried — in Cuba, in Venezuela, in every country that sacrificed freedom for the promise of government-managed equality. Instead she’s describing it as a valuable learning experience.

When asked what George Washington would think of the current moment, Hillary said he’d be “heartsick” — then predictably pivoted to attacking President Trump, the most ‘America First and Always’ president in a century, as the source of all political dysfunction.

The irony is total and self-inflicted. She invokes the Founders warning against dangerous factions — then calls her own party’s embrace of the most anti-American faction in modern political history “healthy.” She invokes George Washington’s concern about factional division — while the party she’s nominally a member of has literally produced a nominee in Michigan who says Israel doesn’t have a right to exist, backed by a man who praises Mao Zedong.