Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is begging folks to “do everything you can to save the Republic from the right, the Republicans and Trump.”

She also took a veiled swipe at the Democratic Party’s far left faction during a talk about a recent documentary on her life and disastrous 2016 election loss to Donald Trump.

Clinton recently sat down with Cinema Café at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to discuss “Hillary,” a four-hour stroll through Clinton’s life through her own eyes.

“I want people to think about our politics,” Clinton told Cinema Café. “Now, I have a view about why it’s broken, and my view is not to excuse Democrats or the left or any of that. But my view is it’s a result of a concerted, determined, well-funded effort that goes back decades.”

Republicans, conservatives, and religious Americans are the problem, she insisted.

Clinton alleged “an alliance between really strong financial interests, often motivated not just by greed and profit but by a rejection of government and regulation, centered in the oil and gas industry but not exclusively that, that made an alliance with ideological and religious leaders and groups to try to push back cultural change.”

Trump “is the willing vehicle for it,” she alleged.

The point is Democrats must align behind the eventual nominee – “whoever it is,” Clinton said.

“If you’ve been, as I have been, not just, you know, in the eye of the storm, you know, for all these years, but calling it out, you know, because I’ve seen it, it’s been directed at me,” she continued. “I think we have a huge existential decision to make this November.

“And I’ve said – I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again – whoever the Democratic nominee is, get behind that person,” Clinton said.

The former first lady touted her support for Barack Obama after her primary loss in 2008, then took aim at Sanders and his supporters, who were reluctant to shift support to Clinton in 2016.

“My election in 2008 was much closer than the election in 2016,” Clinton said. “I actually got more votes but fewer delegates. And as soon as that was clear, within days I dropped out, I endorsed him. I appeared with him. I did 100 events for him.

“I went to the floor of the convention in Denver, because my delegates still wanted to vote for me. They’d worked hard for me, they believed in me and they wanted to vote for me,” she said. “So I went to the floor of the convention and I moved to nominate Barack by acclimation.”

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Clinton clearly begrudges Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, who she targeted in both the documentary and her remarks at the Cinema Café event.

“Think of the difference in 2016 when I won by 4 million votes. I’d won by the end of March, and until literally days before the election there were people saying, ‘no, no, no, we can’t do that. We can’t vote for her.’

“All I’m saying is we cannot afford that,” Clinton continued. “And so the stakes, which are reflected of the politics we currently have and what could happen to this country and the world if we don’t retire the incumbent, should be very clear in this film.

“And so for anybody who watches it, please you’ve got to be committed to do everything you can,” she said as she pointed to herself, “literally to save the republic from the right, the Republicans and Trump.”