What is treason?

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Getting kinda dicey expanding the definition so far...

remember "None Dare Call It Treason"-- John Stormer's anti-Communist screed so beloved by the more unhinged Goldwater supporters? What if they came back in force and tried again to call us traitors? And this time they win?

This title, btw, came from an olde John Harrington rhyme:

“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” The mind of a wingnut is truly bizarre-- Stormer was implying that American "communism" worked, so we're afraid to call it the demon that it is.

FWIW, your idea isn't all that new but has an excellent pedigree as the estimable Cicero thought along the same lines:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In practice, though, such thinking didn't make much of a mark in Cicero's time, either.