As a person firmly on the left (like, the actual left, not Joe-Bernie-whatever), I detest what happened to the trucker protests, and the anti-covid lockdown protests, which were all, in the media, portrayed as radical and violent right-wingers - when that was, when you saw any in person, NEVER the core of them and not even a large minority.
The media has you believe otherwise. It pars-pro-totos the most radical element as the core, or the whole, of them, which then bludgeons the milquetoast left (party-political left type) into acquiesce with the police/banking powers used against them. "after all, we do have to contain the right wing!"
And then these police powers set a precedent, and then they're established, and then they get converted into code with little opposition from what deems itself "progressive" civil society. And then we all sit in it.
Are you serious? Were you not alive in 2020 during the George Floyd protests? I could literally list hundreds of other examples just since then. The Cop City protests near Atlanta where an activist was just murdered by the police under very suspicious circumstances, for example.