Chuck Todd: What if we can't unite? [View all]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/chuck-todd-unite-nation-trump-harris-election-rcna171303

Analysis: Trump's reaction to the most recent apparent attempt on his life is very different from his initial reaction to the July shooting. It's one of a series of bad signs for the nation.

Although the piece has plenty of classic Chuck Todd both-sides-erism, he does have a few phrases of decent analysis. Short and worth a read and comment. One passage that's pretty clear:

...the Trump campaign appears to be approaching this apparent assassination attempt as an opportunity rather than as a moment to reflect...Fox News has been especially aggressive in its programming the last few days, going out of its way to find cherry-picked examples of rhetoric from the left that, on its face, can sound like incitement. It's something Fox could have easily done with Trump’s rhetoric but chose not to. It is simply feeding an audience what it thinks it wants, rather than deciding whether it should be responsible and provide nuance and context.

Todd also goes on the blame social media, primarily, for the division. He's otherwise pretty light on the political right's culpability in all of this.