Karl Rove actually had some advice for Democrats that I agree with for once when it comes to Trump and his love for the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6th. Rove made an appearance at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, and was asked by MSNBC's Ari Melber about "January 6th's enduring and really now shifting role in this campaign."

Melber reported that Rove argued that "Democrats should actually go even harder at Trump's lawless stance and the vow to pardon what Rove, and you're about to see this, what Mr. Rove calls MAGA thugs, not hostages."

ROVE: If they were smart, they'd take the January 6th and go hard at it, and they would say he wants to pardon these people who attacked our Capitol. I worked in that building as a young man. To me the Congress of the United States is one of the great examples of the strength of our democracy and a jewel of the Constitution.

And what those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol, in order to stop a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the electoral college is a stain on our history, and everyone of those sons of bitches that did that, we ought to find them, try them and send them to jail.

And one of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said I'm going to pardon those people because they're hostages. No, they're not. they're thugs. Some of them had automatic weapons at a hotel in Virginia hoping to be able to be called up.

We had people saying where is Nancy Pelosi? We had people taking desks, sitting at desks of the Speaker of the House, and attempting to find people and to bring them to justice, yelling at the police kill them, kill them all.

And so why Trump has done this is beyond me. If he had said, you know what, I trust our jury system, I trust law enforcement, anybody who assaulted the Capitol -- he said it once or twice, but now he's appearing in a video with people who assaulted police officers with an intent to take the Capitol by force.

Look, I'm a Republican. I don't want to have a Democratic president. I want a Republican president. But we're facing as a country a decision -- and everybody gets to make it -- as to what kind of leadership we're going to have. And to me it is a mistake on the part of the Trump campaign to allow the president's impulses to identify himself with the people who assaulted the Capitol rather than the people who stand for law and order.

Melber did not let his audience know whether Rove intends to vote for Joe Biden or not. If he doesn't, and does not intend to tell others to vote for Biden as well, then his words are meaningless.

And Rove missed the obvious point about why Trump is all-in with the insurrectionists. He's one of them. He provoked the riot and admitting they did anything wrong means he's admitting he did something wrong.

So yes, Democrats should take Rove's advice on hitting Trump hard on this, and they already have and I imagine it will ramp up a lot as the election gets closer. Someone call me when Rove does what's right and endorses Joe Biden.