No, just that something people might listen to was chosen because they view it as unbiased or perhaps less biased; the reality is, is that they are neither of these things and are just as bad as VICE, CNN, MSNBC, Salon, et cetera. Additionally, they were the first to break the story. If you want actual news, you need go digging for it or find agencies that actually make an attempt to report on stories, even if they do not fit the mainstream narrative. Politico is Left leaning and only put this out as a means to further distance itself, along with the rest of the normal media as they have over the past week, from the Alt-Left that is Antifa and other violent insurrectionist groups. This is the same reason you are seeing those who were adamantly supporting Antifa and their ilk back peddling and tripping over themselves in doing so.
It should also go without saying that if you read the article, they do everything they can to somehow blame the President of the United States for the rise of the Alt-Left rather than pulling together its history, that distant and more recent. All the election of Donald Trump and his administration did was set off the already stockpiled dry timber. Now hopefully they will burn themselves out, with added aid from the government.