She Who Must Not Be Named doesn't do diplomacy, especially with social inferiors. You agree with her or you're wrong and will be crushed. And the media around her are just fine with that.
Yes, two Americas, but only one of them is trying to wipe the other out, change its precepts, vilify its defenders. I honestly couldn't care less if some urban cave dweller lives his lifestyle, but he or she really does intend to change mine. That's the difference.
And we’re the well-armed half, which goes to show you how wrong their perceptions of us are. We could wipe them out in an afternoon, if we were the barbarians they picture us as.