"End Divisiveness!" GOP Implores, then... Doesn't
The right didn't get the bogeyman they might have wanted in Crooks. His motivations remain unclear, and most of what little evidence does exist shows him lining up on the right of the political spectrum, not the left. So the right couldn't cite him as proof the left is out to get them. Instead they used the attempt on Trump's life to call for everyone, on both sides of the political spectrum, to tone down the divisiveness. That's a laudable move... except the Republicans didn't really mean it.
1) First, what the Republicans quickly showed they meant by "End divisiveness" was stop telling people how bad we are. They faulted Biden for saying in a speech last week that Trump is an "Enemy of democracy". Nevermind that Trump has proclaimed numerous times that he "Would be a dictator on Day 1" if elected president or that he has, for at least the past 8 years, characterized the mainstream press as an "Enemy of the people" for factual reporting about him he doesn't like. Or that Trump orchestrated a massive fraud to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election and fomented an violent mob attack against the Capitol. ...An attack which, BTW, virtually every current sitting GOP member of Congress dishonestly characterizes legitimate political protest and denies was violent.
2) Second, Republican leaders forgot within 24 hours that they'd been calling for an end to divisiveness as they returned to their usual rhetoric at the Republican National Convention that Democrats are trying to destroy America and must be stopped.