It also shows a recurring problem. The ANTIFA/BLM people show up in large groups. The Patriots, when they show up, are always seriously outnumbered and are ripe for any attack the Left wishes to take to them.
Our side remains completely unprepared for any face-to-face confrontation. Still, nowhere near enough of us want to get actively involved in making our case in public.
I think you are missing the real problem. The Antifa/BLM people have backup from the police, the DA's office and the government in many places. So any "confrontation" between conservatives and the leftists is really just an opportunity for the government to throw conservatives in jail.
Time and time again the Antifa/BLM rioters and fighters get charges dropped, and as we learned this week in the case of the rioters arrested after the Trump inauguration they actually get paid in a "settlement" for being arrested.
By contrast, a conservative who was in a fight with some Antifa thugs in New York is serving a long prison sentence, and conservative people who just strolled through the Capital on January 6th are locked up in solitary confinement without even being tried for a crime.
The McCloskeys got arrested for holding firearms to defend their own house from a mob. It took the governor to stop the prosecution. Few conservatives are so lucky.
All this story tells is how easy it is to get an adversary to show up in one place at a predictable time.