“The hard part will be to make sure the Leftists are SEEN to be the aggressors to the world at large.”
That will never, ever happen. The media agree with pretty much everything the leftists do. In any situation they will paint the leftists in a favorable light, downplay or flat-out ignore their actions, spin and inundate through media any actions by the Trump supporters etc...
If there is violence, the preponderance of coverage will be favorable to the Left while Fox, OAN, talk radio and some parts of the internet will be favorable to the right.
Virtually everyone (not all) of each side will only read the coverage that they agree with. The country will get more and more split as a result.
That is the price paid for being soft on marxists since the 1870s.