"... Do you think it gets them respect? ..."  Respect?  No, but they never had that from our bureaucratic nomenclatura anyways.   But now the bluecollar Trump voter has been noticed, and some of the entrenched bureaucrats might dimly start to realize that the people they sneer at, and whose values they routinely scorn, can't be assumed to remain forever passive and submissive anymore.  :-/  

"... Have you watched video footage of the disrespect ..."   Some, if it happened to be on a screen in a public venue.  (I don't own a TV at home.)  {{Yes, I know - that's positively un-American!}}

What do you think of reports from Portland about near-riot conditions, window-smashing, and tear gas to control people who probably call themselves "tolerant liberal progressives"??  As a conservative colleague drily noted, funny, he didn't recall rioting like that from disappointed Republicans 4 or 8 years ago ...  

"... Do you see an upside?..."  Not really.  I'm uneasy about our future, too.  :(