It seems to me that the main component of treason is fear. People fear the tyrant. Tyrants fear the usurper. And when tyrants and usurpers can be brought to trials, they will be charged with treason, and the people will vent their fear. Nowhere is that more evident than in the trials of Donald Trump. The progressive Leftists and their shills in the media fear him. The dupes of the progressive Leftists and the media, principally Democrats, fear him. And their repeated failure to convict him, even in many cases to indict him, build the case for his innocence. Meanwhile they elect by hook and by crook a puppet of tyrants. They support a man, Joe Biden, as venal as they believe Donald Trump to be. (I can't wait to see their delusional gyrations to dismiss his daughter's claims that Biden showered with her and toucher her inappropriately. I'm sure they will fall back on their usual trope that "Trump was worse.")