Sure the people directly participating in it got damaged, but remember that the whole point of feel-good and vigorous liberal/progressive/leftist virtue-signaling is that as long as the signaler is not personally harmed in any way then it's all good; and 99% of leftist virtue signalers around this nation during that year of constant ANTIFA and BLM and radical leftist violence in general . . . were totally unharmed.
Sure, only small businesses & working folks got hurt, But what about Trump and Jan 6th? Doesn't that cancel all the damage ANTIFA & BLM did? Also, by defunding the police, residents of minority neighborhoods can now shoot each other in peace.
But to the seriously distorted perceptions of the average liberal NONE of that has got anything to do with their policies . . . it's just that somehow conservative influences MUST be interfering with the utopian intended execution of those . . . utterly . . . insane policies.