A week doesn't go by without a virtue-signaling leftist pundit repeating the debunked canard that President Donald Trump referred to the KKK and white supremacists in Charlottesville as "very fine people."  The truth is that he was referring to people who were asserting their First Amendment rights (both for and against) regarding the controversial removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in that city.  Many decent people are concerned about the banishment of certain politically incorrect historical figures into an Orwellian memory hole.  That in no way makes these folks "white nationalists".

On the other hand, many Democrats and self-described progressives have equated the terror-funding regime in Iran with very fine people in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike.  It's usually couched in weasel language such as "he was a bad guy, but..."  However, some in the Hollywood left don't include "he was a bad guy' before launching their attacks on President Trump and our military. 

Michael Moore went as far as apologizing to Iran for the attack.  Moore even took the additional step of writing the apology in the Farsi language to save the mullahs the inconvenience of translating it.  Here is the English translation: "Sir, I deeply regret the violence on our behalf by a man that most Americans have never voted for.  Avoid power.  A sincere man, Michael Moore, an American citizen."  How touching, 

Another uneducated limited-talent useful idiot, Rose McGowan, also weighed in.  She tweeted out this gem:

Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani

Rose, do you really think you'd enjoy wearing a full burka if the Iranian regime could impose its will on the rest of the world's women?  Be careful what you wish for.  I suspect you'd be lashed in a village square (or worse) for your lifestyle, which the Iranian radical imams consider immoral and an affront to Allah.

The Democrats' Hollywood proxies are saying things that the most radical of the Dem elected officials can only dream of saying publicly regarding radical extremists in Iran.  This is the left's "very fine people" moment.  Unlike their false characterization of Trump's Charlottesville statement, progressives are demonstrably sympathetic to the Iranian regime.  Should the Democrats retain the House and gain the Senate and presidency, we can expect a return to the Obama-era policies of appeasement with respect to Iran and other despots around the globe.

As Democrats give aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S. through their unbridled contempt for Trump, the president needs to hit them hard by using the "very fine people" phrase against them.  I suggest that "very fine people" should become the tagline of a 30-second campaign spot for the Trump campaign.  In the ad, prominent Democrats are juxtaposed with the despots they have supported over the years, with the Dems' insane words superimposed over the images.  That would be very fine, indeed.  

 Michael A. Bertolone, M.S. is a freelance writer in Rochester, N.Y.