Crossing red lines still unimaginable? That's the new norm now. But hey, if they cross it, why shouldn't we?

They're playing their usual game where they put up the most insane extreme version of a proposal knowing it'll get watered down a bit. In the end you still end up with something absolutely horrible but people are more likely to accept it because "at least it's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be." They do this all the time.