To charge the Liberal Republicans with apostasy because they had the moral courage to disown and denounce these men was to invent a definition of the term which would have made all the great apostates of history "honorable men.
Julian argues that denouncing corrupt politicians should not be seen as a betrayal but as a moral stand.
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