People burning police cars and a police station in Portland after a man is killed by police, at a time when opinion of police is very low.
Vs.
People invading the US Capitol building during the ratification of the presidential election, at the behest of the losing candidate, while a gallows was erected outside.
Those 2 situations are very different. It's disingenuous or dishonest to say otherwise.
This piece talks a lot about how biased the author's coworkers were, but says nothing of his own biases. The USA isn't going to heal until conservatives reject christian nationalism and instead embrace compromise.