“Nearly overthrow the government” is a bit of an exaggeration.

“Nearly alter the executive succession contrary to the election results by application of violence to high government officials”, would be more technically accurate.

The photos/videos of people milling about after members and staffers narrowly escaped those in the crowd clearly intending violence combined with a rather intense propaganda effort aimed at minimizing the autocoup attempt have effectively spread a false narrative of the attack, though.

Well watch this and come back and say that with a straight face.

https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1349944401179496449

It will take some time yet to unravel what happened, and more importantly, who permitted it to happen that way. Their arms didn't enter into the equation, and frankly it is shocking that violent insurrectionists at the Capitol weren't met by a hail of rubber bullets or worse.

"and frankly it is shocking that violent insurrectionists at the Capitol weren't met by a hail of rubber bullets or worse."

For the cynics and BLM activists and more, this is seen as obvious (no rubber bullets, no real resistance). The police forces will tear gas (illegal in warfare), rubber bullet, etc. black lives matter protestors, but won't dare go against white protestors / insurrectionists. We still have a 'uge race issue here. We just cover it up with policies. In reality (aka both insurrection and protests) we clearly see the two groups treated completely different.

A women was shot in the neck and killed. I am sure she would have preferred the tear gas or rubber bullets.

That's not a particularly apt description of what happened.

(they weren't yokels, they weren't particularly armed, they were aligned with officials, etc.)