it’s probably like the Soviet era dissidents that liked WW2 era collaborators to a suspicious degree. Probably unlikely to take power directly, but almost certainly highly influential on whatever action a hypothetical liberal revolutionary government would take.

Kill squad gets sent to city, “we cant become violent or they will send kill squads!”

There’s a simple answer. “Sure they killed someone in cold blood, but they won’t kill me”, so they oppose escalation. The situation in the US is deteriorating, but the subjective and objective reasons for revolution and what that implies to be appealing aren’t present… yet.

Okay but he’s a literal nobody