re: What’s the real purpose of these protests?

I think the idea was simply to further sow chaos, and they thought this was an easy avenue.

The people pushing it were too stupid to realize how limited they would be in finding people to actually get motivated for this "cause" and how little sympathy they would garner, and even how little ability such doofuses had to actually sow and incite anything resembling real "chaos."

They severely miscalculated how much the bunch of losers they were able to get so motivated would turn literally everybody off to the point that you now see them shutting it all down with such a quickness.

So here we are, all anxiously awaiting Plan B.