The same strategy of using lockdown protests as a platform is happening here too, this time with guns.

The difference, in this case, is that according to experts who study extremist groups, anti-lockdown demonstrations, fit perfectly into the ideology of white supremacists and other far-right groups, such as sovereignty, rejecting the legitimacy of government, and anti-immigration sentiment.

The same pattern repeated itself in Europe to where far-right groups are interfering, infiltrating and in other ways taking protests against COVID-19 lockdowns to their advantage and use it to spread their hateful ideologies.

So we can see that they operate in a similar fashion across the world, taking advantage of dire circumstances and looking for any platform to be heard from.

This is a typical example of how extremist groups take advantage of dire circumstances and the frustration of the people. This manifests itself by that these white supremacist far-right groups get involved in protests that aren’t for the far-right agenda but in turn, they take over the spotlight to seem more mainstream then they actually are. They also try to seem to “speaking on behalf of the people”. As the article says they are “exploiting an opportunity.”

 

 This unfortunate development could mean that as the frustration over lockdowns, the loss of jobs and a crippling health situation gets worse, the sympathy for the far-right extremists grows. In these times the ideology of those groups can coincide more and more with the common “civilians” views. 
It isn't hard  to find plenty of these scenarios throughout history.  

When the blame on immigrants and the state apparatus becomes mainstream and not only some crazy rant on a alt-right website, the danger in these ideas becomes prevalent and important to notice through patterns on the news and the change in the people’s attitude towards ideologies that were unimaginable before.