(New York Post) Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, has resigned after receiving fierce backlash for her expletive-filled online tirade in which she called Donald Trump voters “f–king fascists” on election night.
“I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” Helmuth announced on her Bluesky account Thursday.
“I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching).”
Helmuth’s resignation comes after she fired off a series of social media posts on election night bashing people who voted for former President Donald Trump over Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
“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 one post on Bluesky on Nov. 5.
In another post, Helmuth wrote, “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f–king fascists.”
“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,” she also wrote on election night.
Her posts soon led to a wildfire of backlash on social media, with users demanding that she resign, claiming she could not carry out her job as editor-in-chief objectively.
Soon after, Helmuth deleted the posts.
The next day, she shared a Scientific American article titled “Election Grief Is Real. Here’s How to Cope,” featuring comments from University of Minnesota emeritus professor and psychotherapist Pauline Boss.
Boss referred to election grief in her article as “a grief that remains unresolved.”
“It’s not like a 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,” Boss wrote.
