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That's because their personal concern about democracy is zero. Zero concern. They have money and power, they don't need democracy. The threat that the store down the road will be closed when they want to buy tic-tacs is more concerning to them than Trump's threat to democracy.
That's somewhat shortsighted, as the money is heavily predicated on a functioning economy and the power is heavily predicated on a functioning industry. Countries without democracy have historically lagged in both categories, with the client states of large industrial democratic states being the primary exception.
Never underestimate hubris.
That's too broad sighted. They don't care about the country. They'd be plutocrats of a well with a Korean curse on it if meant they had more water than the poors.
And then, when the country is embroiled in a profit-conflagarating civil war, and they personally know people who died in the fighting and they have no idea what they're even going to do, and they have to flee the country and set up in someplace that's still stable, costing them astronomically more than it would have just to deal with the emissions regulations or whatever, it won't be their fault.
It never is. It'll be someone else who created the problem.