If it discourages/prevents rioting, is that not better than having rioting and then reacting after the fact when the damage is done?
Many a lawman has issued a warning and prevented crime.
It is not as though there have been no leftwing riots this year...
Slippery slope. If Texas Military Department presence prevents violence or encourages lawfulness (neither of which isn’t provable by the way), what keeps .gov from using TMD presence to influence other things, like making sure Thanksgiving dinner is a gathering of less than 10 people, according to .gov’s emergency orders?