They are pussies. These are very malleable people whose opinions change based on whatever they last heard from the people they like (or the bots they listen to online) and they'd don't like to admit to mistakes in judgement (they would rather attack somebody else's well-reasoned position than defend a wrong opinion they have) because admitting you were wrong is viewed as weak, and which is why social media is such a problem (malleable maybe a better word than "pussy"). And yeah, those TexAgs threads make me think that they all slept through their government classes (or were daydreaming about sheep or Lassie or whatever) or they just don't care because they were told not to care.
Look, now that Trump has apparently lost the use of the National Guard (kudos to those who predicted that), and they will be told to stand down by the Governor, this is where we find out how far he's willing to go. It's a lot easier to support when it's Marines backing up the local/state National Guard versus American Marines beating down American civilians in an American city.
And while I love my crayon-eating USMC vet relatives, 700 Marines can't do much in a metro area of 19 million people that's geographically bigger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware, and losing the California NG is a big deal logistically for them.
This is some crazy shit, but I think he finds a way to duck out somehow ("whoops, gotta send the Marines abroad to evacuate American embassies, look everybody, it's Iran and their nukes!"). Don't think for a moment that there aren't people in his orbit who are realizing that if things truly spiral out of control this weekend, that next year's elections will be very bad for him.