In the rush to gush their big reveals about Donald Trump’s tumultuous final days as president, the prize for Best Ballyhoo was won hands-down by the smooth but non-revelatory Discovery+ documentary film “Unprecedented.”
Its catchy title turned out to be a truth-in-labeling fit for the unprecedented mega-access the Trump family gifted British filmmaker Alex Holder with. And that access won the documentary its unprecedented super-mega promo spotlight as the House Jan. 6 committee gifted the cable channel by subpoenaing the film as a hearing exhibit.
But make no mistake: Historians will chronicle that patriotic bipartisan panel’s landmark contributions for showing Americans that we must act urgently to fix what has gone wrong with our constitutional republic’s anachronistic Electoral College system. It just doesn’t seem quite as necessary or even valid as it must have back in the horse-and-buggy era. We ought to at least think about talking about rethinking and updating.
