You may have gone over it and decided in your head that it's stupid, but that doesn't make it stupid.
It's straightforward. It's never going to happen, but I'd sell a liver to see it done.

Did you know that there are political parties all over Europe going by this idea? And each time stuff like this happens, they'll have more voters. Maybe do it enough times and they'll go ahead and go through with it.

Actually, it's pretty mild compared to those who'd just re-open Auschwitz for our lovely guests. Radicalization goes both ways.