I once heard timing is everything
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/02/how-antifa-became-a-trump-catch-all-297921?blm_aid=49345537 says:
…Antifa doesn’t appear to have any organizing structure, but it has become a potent term for conservatives — a quick way to brand part of the opposition…
…There’s not much more than anecdotal evidence and blurry Twitter assertions that organized antifa groups showed up at the recent protests, executing any sort of “well-trained” tactics…
… It’s the violent distillation of everything they fear could come to pass in an all-out culture war….
…Starting around the time Trump announced his bid for the presidency in 2015, “antifa” morphed into a phrase that was used to broadly paint liberal protest organizers as driven to destroy civilized society through extreme measures…
There’s more at the politico link but so much more in the four minutes used by Project Veritas putting those lies to rest.