In addition to obviating an overturn of the previous November's election result, January 6 was a huge sting operation, which identified hundreds of President Trump's most loyal and committed supporters, so that they could be hunted to the ends of the earth and taken out of circulation by any dubious means.
It was, one must admit, executed brilliantly.
If the bastards had shown that kind of competence and resourcefulness in governing for the past four years this nation would be in immeasurably bet…
"...President Trump's most loyal and committed supporters..." ~ Howard Skillington
On J6, DJT dog-whistled them, they came, and he clearly and on record, asked them to "protest peacefully", which, as is their Constitutional right, they did.
At great personal cost, with no due process, and the complete absence of rule of law, they were held in solitary and sentenced to many years in prison.
Trump is fake opposition to the Deep State/globalists anyway, so it wasn't necessary to take out loyal supporters.
The real aim was to send a message: the rule of law in the US is over, and we can do anything we like to you, including defining you as a terrorist ,, insurrectionist, or even pre-terrorist, etc, on no grounds at all.
In other words, an anti-consitutional - terroristic - state act in order to intimidate any genuine opposition and further restrict free speech.