Are you old enough to remember how many Republican's said the same thing about Watergate? Was Watergate just political theater?
Yes, but today we have weaponized far better tools of propaganda. And today everyone -- reporters, news agencies, politicians, government departments, corporations, people in general -- are ardent partisans.
In my opinion this whole Jan6 debacle is SEVERAL orders of magnitude worse than Watergate.
Me, too.
But there are two camps.
One believes there was no stolen election, that Trump whipped up his supporters to violence, and that Jan 6 was an attempted overthrow of the government.
Another believes that there was a stolen election, that Trump told his supporters to protest peacefully, and that Jan 6 was a protest that got out of hand -- in part thanks to Fed provocateurs.
Neither camp will convince the other no matter what they say or what evidence they show.
Same as with the Kennedy assassination.
One group believes that Oswald, acting on his own, killed Kennedy. That was the conclusion of the official investigation. That is what is taught in schools.
Another group believes it was a CIA and/or mob plot, with Oswald as a tool.