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Buddy, the outging president of the united states, who had already refused to follow the law and uphold democracy, was openly supporting "good people" who were trying to lynch Congress. And the Vice President, who also had the authority to call them in, was cowering in fear because he had every reason to believe that Secret Service agents would murder him.
Rolling up and stopping the armed lunatics attacking the US Capitol Building is very much something the military can and should do.
This is the equivalent of saying "Well. Russia/China/whoever attacked us. But they blocked the cell phone jammers and might have murdered the POTUS and VPOTUS. So... I guess we just wait until someone tells us we can fight them off?"
But actively refusing to stop the outgoing POTUS from taking over the country with an armed mob because... the outgoing POTUS didn't ask them to stop him? Hmmm. Why does THAT sound more like a route to a dictatorship?
There's more than one person who can authorize that. In fact, Trump never authorized it. It was a DOD political appointee.