Taking into account only authentic protesters, the beginning of the protests were exactly equal. Protesters objecting congress carrying out a Consitutionally provided duty came into the Capital to express their grievance with the constitutional process. Not because they objected to the process per se, but to the outcome of the each process. One group was protesting the confirmation of a what they viewed as a radical USSC justice, and the other was protesting the certification of what they viewed as a stolen election.
They started out the same, with Capital police not interfering with either peaceful protest.
Similar in original intent.
Not at all the same in that there is no reason to believe that government agitators were among the group of anti-Kavanaugh protesters with a mission to goad them into violence. No anti-Kavanaugh protester was shot in the head in order to protect the Senators doing their constitutional duty. No anti-Kavanaugh protesters were prosecuted for anything, as far as I know, much less held in the hellish DC jail for more than a year without trial, based on no other evidence than their presense in the Capital on the day of the protests.
There was no anti-Kavanaugh counterpart to Ray Epps. Epps was caught on video at least twice inciting the protesters to enter the Capital, was put on the FBI Most Wanted List, and then dropped from the wanted list completely, with no explanation. Epps is living openly and freely this day, not having served a minute in the DC political prison that the former DC Jail has become.
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There was no one like that inciting the anti-Kavanaugh protesters.