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I think it's less about the frothing at the mouth folks that are too far gone to rationally evaluate any circumstance.
It's about every other person watching. It may sound ludicrous, but imagine if they had executed every last person that set foot in the capital building that day, and managed to do so within a few months of the incident. I think a lot of people might say "holy shit, they had a point, I thought they were crazy but that was an insane authoritarian response".
Different people have different thresholds for their tipping point for "government is overreacting and threatening free speech", and from what I've seen in the cases I could find, I think they did a fairly good job of typical judicial results. Some of the key people responsible got years in prison. Random people who just followed the crowd without any evidence of committing assault or vandalism or intent to do those things (just trespassing and repeating seditious channts), and for whom this was a first offense, ok they might have gotten probation.
Leniency is pretty common in the justice system under various circumstances, and this seems about the normal amount.
You know there are black and brown people sentenced to life in prison for having been arrested for having cannabis on them, right? In what world do you think Americans care about the encroaching police state? Or is that not an authoritarian response, for some reason?
It's always nuts to see "certain" Americans struggle to see any of the melanin in their fellow countrymen' skin or just blatantly ignore it.
It's obviously because they're all fuckin White, dude. How are some Americans still so damn clueless?
I don't think anybody in their right mind would call for an execution when the punishment doesn't fit the crime. I don't know where you got that idea. But more sensibly, people have gone to prison for longer for less and that's what really makes no sense. You're absolutely right, though, I do take an insurrection as seriously as we should.