If a Manos Hadjidakis were here

Very funny or very serious? Unprecedented or obvious? Anti-democratic delirium or plain delirium? The despicable words uttered on Friday in the Greek Parliament by Golden Dawn lawmaker Constantinos Barbarousis, urging the military to carry out a coup in response to the Macedonia name deal, arresting the president of the republic, the prime minister and the defense minister, in order, as he said, "to avert this treason," sparked political outrage.

A prosecutor ordered an investigation into whether the tirade launched by Barbarousis, who was in the meantime expelled from the neo-Nazi party, amounted to high treason.

The political system reacted in a united way, not only because it saw a first-class opportunity to isolate Golden Dawn in Parliament and make it suffer the institutional consequences of its discourse (the trial over the party's criminal activities is...