On July 4th, while 330 million Americans were celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in self-governance ever attempted, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat behind George Washington's actual desk from Federal Hall, surrounded by recently naturalized citizens, and used the occasion to trash the country that gave him a platform to trash it.

Then Spencer Pratt — yes, that Spencer Pratt — torched him for it in a video that's now burning across every social media platform on the internet.

Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who rode a wave of DSA support into Gracie Mansion, used America's birthday to call the country "an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal." He described Americans who believe in the nation's founding ideals as "small, weak and unoriginal." He took shots at "oligarchs" buying elections, referenced "the world's first trillionaire" — a not-so-subtle jab at Elon Musk — and threw in some complaints about ICE operations for good measure.

Happy birthday, America. Your mayor thinks you're garbage.

As RedState reported, Pratt — the reality TV star from The Hills who recently ran for mayor of Los Angeles as a Republican — posted a video response on X that went straight for the throat. "Notice how the communist always attacks your history?" Pratt said. "The communist must attack your history. Why? Because history is what anchors you. It's what makes us attached to something."

He laid out the argument with a clarity that most elected Republicans can't seem to manage. "Erasing history is how you demoralize people, how you unmoor them and detach them from their society," he continued.

Then came the fastball.

"Be proud of your history. Millions of your ancestors fought and died to preserve it," Pratt said. "Not only is it a miracle that this radical experiment in self-governance even survived past 1776, but we are the champions of the world."

Mamdani's office hasn't responded to Pratt's takedown. That's probably wise. The mayor was too busy dealing with the fallout from his wife, Rama Duwaji, skipping the entire 250th anniversary celebration to attend an Islamic "spiritual wellness" retreat in Mallorca, Spain. When the first lady of America's largest city can't be bothered to show up for the country's 250th birthday, it tells you everything about the household's priorities.

Now, Mamdani would argue he was exercising "righteous dissent" — his term for using the Fourth of July to lecture Americans about how terrible their country is. He framed himself as standing with working people whose "calloused, dirt-streaked hands" built the nation while wealth concentrated in "the soft hands of a precious few."

Fair enough. Except he delivered that populist sermon from behind the desk of the father of the country, in the building where the city's power resides, as the mayor of a city with a $112 billion budget. The man railing against elites from the seat of elite power isn't the working-class hero he thinks he is.

What Pratt understood — and what Mamdani either doesn't grasp or doesn't care about — is that you can acknowledge America's flaws without using its birthday party to spit on its cake. Every country has sins in its history. The difference is that America built the mechanisms to address them. The Constitution Mamdani swore an oath to protect is the same document that ended slavery, extended the vote, and guarantees his right to sit behind Washington's desk and call the whole project a supremacist arena.

A reality TV star from Laguna Beach just made that case more effectively than the mayor of New York City made the opposite one.

That's not a commentary on Spencer Pratt's political future. That's a commentary on how far the political class has fallen.