Glad they’re taking off the gloves a little, but it’s always been a non-option to just make our lives significantly and irrevocably better like M4A or the PRO act and although they’re good at trying and failing, they never talk about the consequences as dire as they actually are with few exceptions.
There’s another real possibility.
History seems to be repeating itself. Right now the U.S. is in the “Germany in 1933” phase. If we don’t deal with the situation ourselves then it’s possible that a coalition of other countries could do the job for us, in which case “innocent” Americans will be nothing more than collateral damage.
Who knows how much the world’s Nuclear arsenal will change the situation, but if any regime in the last 100 years is stupid and pig headed enough to try and win a thermonuclear war… that’s possibly why he says so many stupid and out of pocket things- to convince people that is definitely an option.