Good analysis.
That machine has been losing control of the narrative because of talk radio, the Internet, and social media.
How the fake news proprietors characterize “the people in the streets” depends on what is being protested and who is being protested against. In other words, the narrative is driven by whose ox is being gored. So much nicer to hear yourself being described as a protester as you throw a lit Molotov cocktail into an historic building than to hear yourself referred to as a terrorist for peacefully demanding that a tyrant donkey party governor set your people free while simultaneously engaging in Constitutional open carry.