I’d say that the terrorists that tried to overthrow the government and their sympathizers now trying to excuse these attacks with straw men and fabricated false equivalencies are most certainly the villains.
The great thing is that besides the terrorists and their instigators, all of the terrorist sympathizers can give up their villain status by simply stopping their villainy. They don’t even have to change their views on any particular political hot button or philosophy (unless it involves overthrowing the government), they just have to stop being villains. Stop creating false equivalencies and straw men in support of terrorism and rejoin team America. It’s so easy that I can’t understand why it’s so hard. There are lines that can’t be crossed and this is so far over the line that I can’t fathom the reflexive need to muddy the waters.
Comparing the reaction to the George Floyd death — a sad, terrible, destructive, yet completely unsurprising reaction to real injustice — to terrorists and seditionists storming the Capitol, beating a cop to death, and seeking to take hostages because of a constant stream of lies, propaganda, and incitement is impossibly intellectually dishonest.