OK, bear with me. I think what we need to do is use the stupidity of the various leftist mayors/city council members against them.
They believe that there are a ton of Domestic terrorists on the right. Many of them literally think that every conservative is Timothy McVey mixed with David Duke. So, what we do is get idea going around that a thousands of conservatives are going to show up in say, Portland on a certain day to put the riots down themselves, only we don’t show up.
The idea is that the idiot leftists running the city will be so terrified by their own strawmen that they’ll clear the commies out of the streets to protect them.
You are making an assumption that these mayors care about protecting their own commie idiots. No. They know what Antifa terrorists are capable of and they will leave them to do whatever they want,while standing down the cops, and in the process allow for some nice photo ops to prove how oppressive and dangerous the right is. It will backfire.
I’d considered that as a possibility too, but honestly I think the main drawback of the plan is that while trying to fool them, it’d end up fooling some of the more gullible ppl on the right, and devolve into a quasi-Charlottesville for the left to parade around.