If you have been following the news from Myanmar, just remember that could have been the US.
Everyday we get news that the military in Myanmar killed X number of people and violated human rights (Link: 1) . The world condemns the Myanmar's military's actions (Link: 2), and of course the normal reaction would be to condemn the killing of civilians.
The legitimacy of the election is no longer the concern once people are on the streets protesting. People react first before they think. Once the narrative is set, it would be hard to reverse it. You'd have riots and economic shutdown, again after COVID, think what that would do to the US.
If the Military took the power directly, there would have been violent protests. Any action taken to control the protest could have resulted in many deaths and injuries., civil war and chaos that ultimately doesn't benefit the people.
Just a perspective from an outsider.
Things will get ugly either way if action isn't taken. Lock some more places down while our economy slowly crumbles all the while enacting crazy as fuck EO's and far left policies that will ruin our Nation, and there will eventually be violence.
It would be far better for a controlled operation to happen before that, but what do I know. I think we are heading toward that direction regardless. Our points of view couldn't be more opposite than the left. It is fucked and some people are to brainwashed.
Military better act at some point and sooner rather than later. They will be in the fight eventually anyways so.
Disclaimer I don't want violence. But what is being concocted in this COuntry right now is an era with some of the highest tensions we have ever seen in the history of our Nation.