That was the point of the 1/6 "insurrection"; false flag shit to basically outlaw the GOP when it became apparent that the bulk of the public knew damn well that the Democrats stole the 2020 election.
It's not that simple.
Take yourself back to the summer of 2020. Major cities were burning on a regular basis, anarchists and other whackjobs were literally occupying territory in Seattle, Portland was a fucking warzone and the folks who were trying to stop BLM and Antifa from burning down the Federal Building were labeled as "Jack Booted Thugs".
People were outraged and the best the left could come up with was that "The owners of these burned out buildings were insured". That disgusted a lot of regular run of the mill folks.
When it happened, I wasn't particularly horrified about January 6th because that's what America had become.... Riots, as much as I loathe them, were a thing that happens. What I took away from it was that the right had sacrificed the moral high ground. We could no longer point to the riots of 2020 and say "Fuck those people".
Now if you are arguing with the left, you can't criticize Antifa smashing a guy in the face repeatedly and when he tries to escape in his truck and crashes, he's drug out of the truck and beaten within an inch of his life; without saying in the same breath "Fuck the January 6th rioters". You can't outlaw a party but you can portray them as violent insurrectionists. Dean Obeidallah, who hosts a radio show on Progressive 127 and is a CNN Contributor, spent the anniversary of 1/6/21 claiming that Trump is the equivalent of Bin Laden.
If 1/6 glows (and I'm starting to think it might), that's the reasoning behind it. If Joe Biden and his administration had been remotely competent, it could've worked. My Aunt, who's not particularly political, was horrified at the news coverage (and she bought the media's narrative that BLM and Antifa were just peaceful protestors) and was convinced that Trump incited an insurrection (and to be fair, I wished he'd have taken the L and come back).
Today, they're hyping it because that's all they've got. The problem is that they've jumped the shark. When they started comparing 9/11 to January 6th, it pissed a lot of people off.
I watched 9/11 in real time. People were jumping from buildings because falling 80 stories was preferable to burning to death. I remember trying to track down my Grandfather, who was flying that day from the East Coast, but I couldn't get through because the switchboards were jammed. I remember trying to call my friends in NJ, a place I had lived in 2 years prior, because the news initially reported that the last plane went down in Somerville NJ and not being able to get through.
I remember going to ground zero a few months after and reading the letters people put up on the barricades. You want to talk about some gut wrenching shit, there were letters written by people who didn't have a body to bury and couldn't get the closure they desperately needed. So instead of a funeral, they wrote their eulogy on a piece of paper and nailed it to a piece of the barrier. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of them (and every one would make you bite your inner lip so you didn't weep like a bitch).
When they tried to sell the idea that a man in a Buffalo Hat wandering around stoned in the Capitol was the same as 9/11.... they burned all the capital they were going to get out of that. They wanted this to be a 9/11 but they overplayed their hand (by a lot). That was a bridge too far for anyone who actually remembers living through 9/11.