I think his point was that Hume is RINO. But he sure has a long-winded way of expressing that fact.
And besides, we already knew that Hume is RINO.
If recollection serves me correctly, Hume worked for Marxist Drew Pearson’s “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column later run by draft-dodger/leftist Jack Anderson.
I remember sitting in a room with a govt investigator who was talking to Hume about a story they had run and he was telling Hume (or perhaps, less likely, Joe Spear), that their story was wrong. They had accused this investigator of doing something that he did not do but could not explain to them because it involved a parallel classified intelligence operation.
Hume or Spear never ran a correction.
In the old days, I was privy to some undercover intelligence operations, being a former undercover operative myself. The Wash. Post was the worst smear-artist against govt intelligences organizations and congressional internal security committees. Even today their obituary columns read like they were written by the Communist Party (re the Irving Peress obit the other day).
Hume is sometimes correct in his assessments, but then he reverts back to the old liberal inside of him. I hate a man who can’t stand by his own intellectual convictions.