No one here is considering how seriously threatened and blackmailed this entire country is by the psychopaths who have wrested control of the military, law enforcement, and mainstream news.
None of the people now being dismissed and called "cowards" and "turncoats" - including Trump - can make a move without the very real threat of our nation being hit with a dirty bomb, a suitcase nuke, or a real epidemic like ebola (or worse.)
Do you really think the massively corrupt global entities we face wouldn't do that?
Do you really think that Trump, Flynn, Giuliani, MTG, Lake, etc. are just cowardly and stupid?
Or is there something else that stays their hand?
I think you are partly right. I suspect the threats are not against the people in general but only particular politicians.
For instance, in the UK I could never understand why Prime Minister Ted Heath was so keen to get us into the "Common Market" which transformed into the EU. Many years later I realised that he had connections to Jimmy Savile and not in a good way if you catch my drift.
Then the mechanism becomes obvious. "Hi, I am Mr Globalist and we want all European countries to group together as a precursor to implementing our Globalist Agenda. You, Ted, will get the UK into the group or the story goes to the papers."
I have no evidence of that actually happening but everything was in place so it might have.