You know what? I'm glad this happened. It needed to happen. All of those cowardly ****s who encouraged this for their own political benefit needed to see first-hand what they had wrought. The differential treatment by police of peaceful left-wing protesters and right-wing insurrectionists needed to be on full display. The fact that these are not concerned 'patriots', but rather insane people who will plant IEDs and trash the halls of government in a fit of seditious pique, needed to be seen by the whole world.
It's horrifying that it came to this. It was always going to come to this. Now the lines are drawn: are you on the side of democracy, or antidemocratic white mob rule?