Sorry but I can't feel any sympathy for this guy. You know as well as I do that we'd be pissed if someone did this to Ted Cruz or something.
No doubt he broke the law. OTOH, if you really want to carefully and specifically compare the two sides... The likes of Cruz and Hawley would be bailing him out. Because that is the approach Harris and other democrat leaders took with BLM and Antifa rioters this summer. Dim leaders were calling rioters peaceful protesters, and we giving active support.
That is the whole rub on this shit. There is a double standard in judging political discourse in this country. (Including silence around the Capitol Police Cop who shot Ashli Babbitt). The left may think they put the dagger in right wing anger.... Fact is, it is the opposite.