The challenge coin thing is a stretch, and a stretch that they’re being used to make wild claims about the Proud Boys. They did trash talk with a lot of people about their “mission”, and were too large (way over a 2-3 person team) to maintain even a minimum of security. In other words, posers and jokes. The Proud Boys can’t be taken seriously, but in that day and days prior and that environment, they were taken seriously. That in almost all instances should not be a crime.
The Proud Boys were started as a Western chauvinist drinking club. I’m wondering what you expect for “serious” there. That’s one heck of an attempted slam.