Only a Democrat would call a mass murderer his “hero.”

(NYDN) — Most American pols toasted the demise of Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy, but one local official says he’s proud to think differently.

“One person’s horrible person can be another person’s hero,” Brooklyn City Councilman Charles Barron told the Daily News. He called Khadafy “my hero, an African freedom fighter.”

Barron has made a career of infuriating his critics by lionizing people who’ve been condemned by most Americans. He hosted a City Hall reception in 2002 for Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe and has lavished praise on Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

The former Black Panther spoke last week at a Bedford-Stuyvesant memorial service for Khadafy.

“Like Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe, [Khadafy] is an African freedom fighter — taking back African resources for African people,” he said. “America hates strong African leaders who are not afraid of them.”