You and I and the average citizen would be afraid. But not a big shot “more people watch me than any other show” TV personality with the leading cable network behind him. Unless it’s that “Network” that’s told him to shut it. If that’s the case then I guess the more money he makes the more he wants to keep making.
As for the dem voting public, I’ve never heard one liberal say anything good about Arpaio. They either hate him or they exhibit the “obama stare”. (That’s the “nothing is inside my head” stare.”
A media figure would only have to say, on the air,
“I’ve received threats from XYZ, here’s the proof/recording”
and that would protect them from the exercise of that threat.