Aside from intimidation, the Crimes they committed allowed the Uniparty to gauge what people were willing to tolerate and allow.
Displays of 2A mean nothing if thugs are allowed to roam freely. The orderly takeover of the Capitol also proved it.
Consider Sharia patrols in the UK that intimidate people or the Yakuza in Japan that control cities to maintain order.
Militia gangs need to take control of cities. There needs to be organization and discipline, and law enforcement needs to be roped in so that local politicians are scared too.
The Democrats are just spoiled gangsters. They must be replaced with the same gangster mentality who can actually put up a fight.
It was also to wear down the cops. If we get to a point of violence across the country, the corrupt powers running everything didn't want good cops on the line.
The good cops had to be removed through defunding their departments, mental fatigue of holding the line with no support, communities taught to hate them all, fired if they didn't enforce illegal mask mandates and other illegal covid regulations, and the list goes on. All we're left with in a number of places are the thugs antifa accused them all of being in the first place. Antifa was used to hone the police into a weapon against the rest of us when we came. This is why a significant number of cops won't be on our side. The ones that would have been have quit or been fired by now.