So like I'm not being snarky to anyone in the replies here, but absolutely nothing I posted here is about forgiving this guy and his STEM professor friends or anything. These folks are fascists, I'm just pointing out that they're also very small, shortsighted, pathetic people.
I'm a big believer that you can come back from almost everything if you show contrition and practice atonement - but there is no universe where *I* forgive and forget people voting in a nazi who wants to pogrom me. Never.