MSNBC Guest Proposes 9/11 Style Federal Response Focused on ‘Extreme’ Republicans

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RIECKHOFF: “Well, I think that there's a core point, which is that a lot of Americans are up for grabs. I wouldn’t dismiss it as just something that only people on the right or watching Fox News can latch onto. We are in a battle for hearts and minds, and there are people who are on the fence. You got to have leaders and messages and messengers and programs that get to those people, that bring them over into community organizing and into non-profit organizations and away from the Patriot Front and the Oath Keepers. And I think the parallels with 9/11 are important. We talked about this before. After 9/11, the laws didn’t work. Like, they made massive changes to respond to a new threat. I think we have to face the fact that many of our structures, laws and policies may not work. After 9/11 we created the Department of Homeland Security. There was the Patriot Act. There was massive change in our entire society to face the number one threat, or at least what was communicated as the number one threat. I think we need the same kind of tectonic shift. It's got to be much more than 'See something, say something,' but maybe our laws need to change to respond to the fact that someone like Mike Flynn, the former national security director, is openly calling for violence, consistently."