I want to go out on a limb and give the Capitol protesters some credit. Even now that the dust has settled a bit, I'm not sure most of them knew that the plan was to storm the building. I would guess that *many* knew, but not necessarily most. It would only take a fraction, radicalized by the various theories on youtube/parler/4chan/etc, to lead the crowd into that action.
That one clip of the woman who got peppersprayed at the entrance (friendly fire from the rioters, or cop action?) and left in shock sticks with me. She didn't know what she was getting into. She isn't some fascist trying to ziptie congresspeople, she wanted to protest just like me. We disagree in the strongest terms, but protest is good and important.
The core difference, in my mind, is that... Antifa and BLM activists didn't incite mobs for political violence. People took advantage of civil unrest to loot. Antifa isn't even an organization, and BLM strongly condemns the looting that took place. Government instigators have a history of inciting such things in civil rights protests, but even if that didn't happen, it's nothing like what took place on the sixth.
Organized right-wing militias used a crowd of well-meaning protesters to violently break into the nation's capitol and sieze documents, and tried to sieze our elected officials as hostages. This is not comparable to the civil unrest over... a perceived lack of police oversight. The right-wing media likes to talk about cities on fire, but that's not what happened. What happened is that ex-military militia with lethal weapons almost fucking executed senators we elected, and did irreparable damage to our reputation as a nation.
And we watched many (not all!) of the cops stand by or assist. So there's that.
It's not comparable. Protest is good, this is fascism. And it's not done, not by a long shot.