On the evening of August 10 th the Romanian government organized a dress rehearsal for a political takeover–complete with sets and costumes–and we saw what Liviu Dragnea’s Romania would look like. It would be a violence-based dictatorship, a bayonet regime founded exclusively on force and the threat of violence. It would be a simulacrum of a constitutional regime with corruption at its heart, a state in which privileges and budget would be shared among a camarilla devoted to the service of the great leader. On the night of August 10th , the president of the Chamber of Deputies (… citeste mai mult