I count 2016 as a backlash because the popular origins of modern wokesterism started on sites like Tumblr in the early 2010s. We can go back further and look at Cultural Marxism as understood by the Frankfurt School, which is the Jewish intellectual root of this wokesterism, but the actual movement hadn’t really materialized until the early 2010s. So 2016 was the first serious backlash to it. It might not appear as such because you’re living on another continent, but this conflict goes BACK.
As for comparable demonstrations of power, I can think of three very noteworthy right wing demonstrations: Charlottesville, the Bundy standoffs, and January 6. Boomercons might be misguided, but they’re the ones who had the first actual White race riot in like a century, and they brought it straight to the Capitol Building over a rigged election.
Given the heavy-handedness of the crackdown, an understanding has been created that if Whites smash a few cameras and shove a few cops around, they will go to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, forever, and so an understanding has been created that if you do lash out, go ham. Maximize death and destruction. I should mention that American Whites have guns. So, the next January 6, if there is ever one, will involve just rounding everybody up and killing them outright until the military comes in, if they can even marshall it correctly now.
They are more desperate than they appear.