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At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."
Weld's caustic apostasy handed his enemies a persuasive argument against his fitness for the job--that he's "undiplomatic."
The liberal views of Kevin Phillips have greater market value because they can be presented to the public as startling Republican apostasy.
You can question whether that apostasy was necessary, but you cannot claim that it has been a disaster--and you cannot disguise the fact that those who predicted disaster were letting politics and ideology cloud their judgment.
When I was deputy editor of the New Republic during a seven-month period of apostasy in 1994, there were no fact checkers; it was before the whole Ruth Shalit business, so the fact checking "department" that Jack describes did not exist.