The Canadians Truckers were basically center-left normies. They have no idea that they would be met with a level of open hostility and violence that they were hit with. The logic was that you protest the government to show your grievance, and they respond. In this case: the government was going to impose mass injections on all truckers regardless of medical or religious objection, and that internal checkpoints would be set up across every province to check status, which would be monitored by digital surveillance. It was an act so pathologically insane and aggressive that the normies jumped up and said: "We should definitely be annoying as fuck about this!"

The government's response was: "Kill yourself. You deserve death. You will be granted nothing in all cases. We will hunt your families. We will break you."

Which, no normie expects everyone to suddenly turn to them and say when they have such a legitimate grievance. They didn't expect every politician, every media outlet, every doctor, every cop, every bureaucrat, every union leader, every pundit, every newspaper, every teacher, every nurse, every academician, to simultaneously respond: "Kill yourself, or we'll do it for you."

The normies discovered the Friend-Enemy Distinction; unaware that although Liberalism is Universalist, Leftists wear Liberalism as a skinsuit to point out that dissent removes you from the moral universe, and thus you are no longer part of moral consideration when they attack you.

All that being said, the Canadian Truckers did push the government to start rolling back most of it's Covid policies, which it never would have done without the protest. The Globalist Vassal State of Canada did suffer a defeat; but the Canadian Truckers have no idea what victory looks like in a protracted war.