Badge just said that in Kenosha the governor has done what you wanted. Not when you thought he should have, but he did it. That's not consistent with, "they would prefer to watch things burn."
I won't likely run for office, but my wife will. She has had to deal with civil unrest and protests in our city. Unsurprisingly, the action this city took (and we're a small city, even compared to Kenosha) was criticized from the left and the right, so I guess she got it correct.
This isn't an all or nothing proposition. Particularly in a country in which the Constitution strongly protects the right to protest, the government's response needs to be calculated.