Jonah, you’ve touched a little nerve of mine — Michael Moore as mainstream Democrat. You wrote, “I can’t tell you how much eyerolling I have put up with from liberals who insist that, for example, Michael Moore isn’t part of mainstream liberalism. I don’t buy it.” You are right, my friend.

Quick little walk down Memory Lane. When Fahrenheit 9/11 — that sack of lies, and dangerous lies — had its Washington premiere, virtually the entire Democratic establishment turned out for it. This included the Senate leader, Tom Daschle — not some Code Pink harridan. The DNC chief, Terry McAuliffe, was there. One of Moore’s toxic charges was that the president took the country into war in Afghanistan, not to rout al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but to benefit his business cronies in Texas.

Byron York asked McAuliffe whether he believed that. McAuliffe said yes. (Check out Byron’s unforgettable piece here.)

Some weeks later, at the Democratic national convention, Jimmy Carter invited Moore to sit with him in the presidential box. He told Moore that there was no one he would rather sit with. On another occasion, Carter told students at Emory that Fahrenheit 9/11 was his favorite movie of all time, along with Casablanca.

I don’t know if Carter’s a mainstream Democrat, but he was president of the United States, if that counts for anything.

Anyway, I could go on and on — so could we all — but . . .