I'm glad you brought up the J6ers. While I was watching it happening, I wondered why the cops didn't just mow down those traitors with machines guns and baptize the Capitol steps in treasonous blood. So I was screaming for justice from the beginning.
Right away, there were people claiming nothing would happen. Yet the FBI quickly put up a website with photos of the most violent traitors, much of it drawn from their own social media posts, because they were stupid enough to believe the same bullshit, that nothing would happen to them.
But their families, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. all dimed them out, and they started to get arrested. Then the naysayers said they never go to trial. Then they went to trial, and they said they'd never get real sentences, and they started to get sentenced to years in prison.
Eventually, well over 1000 people were tried and sentenced, and many more were still in line, and still being sought. They cought a bunch on my area 2 or 3 years later, who were tried and sentenced.
And the entire time these people were being sought, arrested, tried, and sentenced, there were people like you, hollering that these people would never see justice - as they were sitting in prison.
Yeah, Trump pardoned them all, but not before they spent some time in prison. If you've ever spent a single day in jail, you'd know you'd never want to spend another one there. Most of these people were normal American citizens at one time, who drank the hypnosis juice and became wild MAGAs, and they were brought up to be intensely frightened of prison, as they should be. So spending even a few months in prison, especially since you didn't think you could ever count on a pardon, and believed you had years ahead of you, is going to leave a lasting mark on these people. The next time Trump demands they fight for him, I doubt many of these people will show up for round 2.