Hasn't changed much. If anything, it reinforced my thoughts on how bitterly dishonest your political sphere is, and how much it is driven by empty rhetoric rather than a fair characterization of the situation. You've had a full summer of riots spanning across America with more political and media figures than I can count pouring gasoline on, and downplaying or outright justifying, the damage, violence, and even death.
After all of that, the fact that we're even having this discussion as if indirect incitement by politicians were something new is a testament to how full of shit your politics is. Seriously, people who were, a few months ago bailing out rioters, saying "Where does it say that political protests have to be polite and peaceful," and giving impassioned speeches at the DNC loaded with incendiary half truths and mischaracterizations and even outright falsehoods to get people angry, and now pretending like they're appalled by inflammatory rhetoric. Sadly, both sides selectively buy the excuses when it suits their political purposes.
Yeah, it has just reinforced what I already thought. You guys don't want unity because you've bought the lie that the other side is evil, and because they're evil you don't have to treat them like people any more. Politicians are cleaning up on this, and using high-sounding moral language as a cudgel to beat down the moderates who might have had a chance of actually generating some unity - and they're doing it with the consent of their bases.
