I think it's very possible that the rubes have not seen much of the photos and video of what happened. Seriously. They may really just think that it was a couple of tours that got a little frisky. Look at post 119 above.
If you show them what actually happened, they just blame it on the Dems. That wasn't the Trumpsters. I had one of them tell me that the violence we see in videos of the Insurrection was actually a Hollywood production. Really:
Post 273
They can't venture outside their world, so maybe they really don't know. Is that possible?