1/ I've heard some conjuring the notion of restorative justice to suggest we have an obligation to reach out to Trump voters and offer them the opportunity to rejoin the beloved community, to understand them, etc. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how RJ works...
2/ The concept is not a "get out of jail free" card for one's transgressions. It is not an absolution ticket one can wield so as to let bygones be bygones. RJ requires that those who injure take responsibility and make amends for their actions (in this case injuring so many)...
3/ AND RJ presumes that those who are injured have the primary say over what the transgressor needs to do. So this means that in order to apply RJ to Trump voters they must...
4/ a) own the harm of what they've done, b) apologize for it, c) submit to the direction of those they hurt and then d) do whatever the injured say they need for them to do as a way to make amends. And if you think they are gonna do any of these things you've lost your mind...
5/ Bottom line: the primary burden for making RJ work is placed on the transgressor, not those they harm. THEY must take accountability. And at this point, they can't even manage to take the loss, so...yeah
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