Now that Donald Trump is President-elect once again, a lot of Democrats are jumping directly off the deep end.
Some think they can spew hatred without seeing any kind of consequences for their behavior.
And now the editor-in-chief of a major magazine had a Trump Derangement Syndrome meltdown you have to see to believe.
Scientific American’s editor-in-chief leaves after anti-Trump rant
Scientific American is one of the country’s oldest magazines and has been in publication for 179 years.
The magazine formally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign, marking only the second time that the magazine has ever endorsed a candidate in its long, storied history.
Now, the editor-in-chief for Scientific American, Laura Helmuth, has resigned just days after getting severe backlash for her post-election, expletive-laden online rant, in which she called President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters “f**king fascists.”
Helmuth posted the rant on Election Night and later announced that she was leaving her job on the ultra-left-wing Bluesky social media platform.
“I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor-in-chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching),” she wrote.
I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth.bsky.social) November 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Her resignation comes after she blew up her social media account on Election Night, bashing anyone who voted for Trump.
“Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f**k them to the moon and back,” she wrote.
In a separate post, she wrote, “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f**king fascists.”
A third post read, “Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself.”
However, Helmuth quickly deleted the posts after they led to a massive backlash from several social media users who demanded she resign.
Many people said there was no way she could continue to carry on as the editor-in-chief of the magazine objectively.
The following day, she shared an article from Scientific American entitled: Election Grief Is Real. Here’s How to Cope.
The article featured comments from psychotherapist and University of Minnesota emeritus professor Pauline Boss, who said the grief after an election is “a grief that remains unresolved.”
Boss wrote, “It’s not like the grief of a person for whom you have a death certificate and a funeral after and rituals of support and comfort. We’re stuck with this. I wrote about it as frozen grief.”
Helmuth later apologizes
After her public anti-Trump tirade on November 5, Helmuth eventually apologized on November 7 by admitting that her posts were “offensive and inappropriate.”
She also claimed, “I respect and value people across the political spectrum.”
However, screenshots of her posts were already saved and shared on X, with one user asking, “Does the editor-in-chief of Scientific American seem like someone who is entirely dedicated to uncompromising scientific integrity? Or does she seem like a political activist who has taken over a scientific institution?”
Does the editor in chief of Scientific American seem like someone who is entirely dedicated to uncompromising scientific integrity?
Or does she seem like a political activist who has taken over a scientific institution? pic.twitter.com/mOOzE7SVbq
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) November 12, 2024
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw the post and reacted to the question by reposting it and simply responding, “The latter.”
The latter https://t.co/nXvdFV1Dwn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2024
According to the magazine’s president, Kimberly Lau, Helmuth decided to resign all on her own.
She also thanked Helmuth for her time leading the publication and said that the magazine had “won major science communications awards and saw the establishment of a reimagined digital newsroom” with Helmuth in charge.
Lau also said they “wish her well for the future” in a statement to the Washington Post and added they’ve already started to look for a new editor-in-chief.
