Perhaps the most telling visual from the whole media collage of images, were those of these "patriots" taking down the flag of the United States and replacing it with a Trump 2020 flag. They go on and on about the American flag, apparently forgetting that the Nazi party replaced the German flag with that of their party, and eventually moved from demanding national allegiance to demanding party allegiance, and then to demanding allegiance not to country or party, but to a single person... Hitler himself.
A flag is little more than a symbol, and I don't care if you want to make a statement by burning one, running it up the pole upside-down or throwing it down onto a dirty parking lot. In this country, you have that right. But it is the fact that you live in this country that you have that right, so if you're going to claim to be a patriot while making your statement, you're going to be judged by your treatment of the symbols of the Constitution, country and ideals that make it possible for you to act like an asshole without being shot for doing so.
The actions of these people, and their treatment and display of the symbols for which they believe most strongly (Trump, KKK, Confederate, White Supremacy and other flags) definitely made a statement. The symbols of our nation, democracy, government and national ideologies were secondary to those of their megalomanical leaders and subversive, psychopathic ideologies and belief systems.
There was absolutely nothing patriotic about their actions or behavior, and the more severe their punishment, the sooner people will learn the difference between social revolution and political revolution. One is a natural process of an advanced civilization... the other is called sedition, and requires the destruction of a political system that allows for social changes within its framework. It allows for correction, improvement and extension through a democratic process without the need for any revolution.
When the Whig Party faded into oblivion in the middle of the 19th century, it was because they made themselves irrelevant and stuck to their outdated party line in a time of rapid change. Somehow, I don't think they will be the only political party in this country to meet the same fate.