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My guess is a lot of people who went into it are politically conscious one way or another, they entertain the possibility of a US civil conflict in real life, and were expecting a gratification of their own views.
I know the gun community was basically wishing for an action movie wankfest where the based trad-cons drive out the Deep State and their liberal puppets. They particularly hated that journalists were the protagonists.