No, showing respect to the radical right will accomplish nothing. The wingnuts have made it abundantly clear for years that anyone who disagrees with their political ideology is human garbage and should literally be forced to capitulate or die. There's no civil response to a person who is so full of themselves that they think anyone who is different needs to be eliminated. There is no place in a civilized society for the eliminationist rhetoric they espouse at every chance.
So, I have adopted the logical position that anyone who wishes ill will towards me, my family or friends is in fact my enemy. Not because I have a problem with them, but because they have a problem with me and are actively seeking ways to destroy me. I have no choice but to actively defend myself, and that's exactly what I do each and every day of my life. I meet fire with fire and anyone who crosses my path had damned well better be ready to go all the way, because I sure as hell am.
Personally, I'm done playing games with these wingnuts and pretending that they are just regular, hardworking, loyal Americans too. They're not regular Americans, they are dangerous, radical freaks. Do not trust these people, do not associate with them and do not do business with them. Treat them like the domestic enemy that they have defined themselves as.
It is not the duty of the attacked to open a dialogue with the attacker. If wingnuts want to be treated like decent human beings worthy of being heard and respected, then all they have to do is behave like decent human beings worthy of being heard and respected.
Instead, the wingnuts choose to alienate others and self-segregate themselves along ideological lines. THEY chose this path. THEY defined all Americans with different values as traitors and the enemy of 'their' America.
The wingnuts are the aggressor and only they can end the acrimony by ending their hatred of the world, by apologizing, and by proving through good deeds over time that they are good people.
In the mean time, I stay vigiliant at all times. The man who trusts his enemy is the man who dies first.