“Hanson feels the need to take a swipe at his character”
I didn’t take it that way - especially when he qualified his “crude” comment with the following:
...it seems impossible to imagine that globalist John McCain, internationalist Barack Obama or gentlemanly Mitt Romney would ever have called Europe, NATO, Mexico, and Canada to account, “
I think Hanson may have been torn, preferring gentlemanly but recognizing the need for aggressive bluntness.
I take exception to the word crude and it’s implications if blunt & forthright is meant. Calling a spade a spade is not crude in my book nor is saying you didn’t live up to your agreement and I have been pulling your weight.