So a bunch of people, presumably armed heavily enough that the police wouldn't touch them, seized the US Capitol and left when told to leave... Safe to say today was beyond surreal.

Back in the summer, the far-left black-ski-mask folks who attached themselves to the BLM protests got to see that their revolution isn't coming. (And I'm not implying they were in charge or that there were very many of them, but you'd be crazy to look at footage from May and June and say Antifa-esque types didn't play a big part in the early riots in places like Denver) Now, half a year later, the equivalent people on the other side get to disperse and see the same thing for themselves.

If this whole episode shows anything (and it most probably doesn't) it's likely that for better or worse the system or whatever you want to call it is pretty stable and intransigent and there is basically no room for radical change of any kind. When a bunch of armed radicals take over the US Capitol, take selfies, hang around, but then give up and walk away, you can pretty safely say were are living after the end of history.