My point from the beginning has always been, if the governors, mayors, and police chiefs, in all these Liberal cities do not care if their cities are burned down, then why should I?
I think it was always a setup to bait Trump into getting involved. If Trump were to send forces to stop the destruction, that would give the governors, mayors, and police chiefs, a platform to stand on a soapbox and give speech after speech condemning Trump and his administration.
In the world of Liberals, this would make them martyrs and heroes against the tyranny of Trump. Even though Trump is only trying to help the citizens of their cities by stopping the chaos. All of this is all directed at damaging Trump.
However, from my point of view, it has backfired in a big way because Trump did not fall for their trap. Now Democrats are known nationally as the Party of riots and anarchy.