They KNOW there is going to be RIOTING!!
I believe you may have something there. Not so much courageous posturing as cowering in fear of the monster they helped create. Performers getting death threats, or risking ruined careers, simply for not marching in lockstep with the orders of their leftist commissars. Is this the America they think is better? Irrational. But then fear can make you do crazy things.
Peace,
SR