You're correct, and the left would be wise had they stopped pushing, oh, a few months ago let's say. But now there's a lot of anger out there already building and it's most likely too late to disarm it, no matter how many times Sleepy Joe calls for unity and crossing the aisle. I'm sure many on the left are actually aware of this rising fire, some of them are probably even counting on it. They want another Charlottesville or another Tarrant sperg they can drag out to beat everyone over the head with, and I hope like fuck nobody gives it to them, no matter how much they have asked for it. They'd love nothing more than to have some more martyrs. The only thing the left has going for it now that they've pushed far beyond the threshold is that if you get three "far-right" people in a room with some folding chairs the glownogs will be trying to infiltrate the group by sundown and talking them into some kind of plot by sun-up, upon which the room full of folding chairs gets raided so they can pin it up on the news as "yet another" example of "right-wing extremism and violence". Except for online shit, the right really can't organize without something of that nature occurring, unless we're talking milquetoast conservatives, even the Proud Boys have likely been compromised and are deemed "Nazis" despite most of their takes being plain-Jane. Even the online shit is under siege, and has been for some time, with everyone to the right of Mao Zedong being censored, banned, deplatformed or shadowbanned off of pretty much every public platform aside from ones that few people use. Once those platforms can no longer be funded [because banks/payment processors are in on the shit] the right might very well be shoah'd off the Internet too. Hell, The_Donald was the Reddit home of milquetoast boomers and it still got taken down.
It's stunning how quick they can shift from calling you every nasty word in the book, beating people over the head with bike locks, throwing explosives at policemen and even shooting people in the fucking face in public and immediately shift to: "We need unity and civility! We must come together!" They must have the memory of a goldfish. They remember none of the events of the past six months apparently. But quite a few of us have been keeping score, and we won't soon forget.
I take a lot of glee in the fact that they get so fucking bold in places like Portland and Seattle because they're allowed to do so without consequence, but the very second they leave their friendly territories, they're instantly outnumbered and they get their shit rocked all fucking night when they try to export their stupid bullshit from Portland. They've already pushed too far. They wrote a fucking check and that son of a bitch bounced hard and now it seems like it might be time for them to pay up. Tonight's beatings in DC are just a taste of things to come, I'd imagine.