Laura Helmuth/Bluesky Laura Helmuth
In what might be the most bizarre case of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet recorded, the editor in chief of Scientific American (SA) resigned her post last week after she disgorged unalloyed post-election hate-Trump comments on the Bluesky social media platform.
Laura Helmuth is no longer running the far-left magazine that endorsed President Joe Biden for this year’s election, then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris after the Democrat-Deep State coup removed Biden from the race.
After the despicable comments, in which she called Trump voters “fascists,” Helmuth apologized, but then quit the magazine she joined in 2020.
“I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” Helmuth wrote on Bluesky last week, the New York Post reported. “I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching).”
Those who see her comments might suggest that she skip the birding and visit a psychiatrist.
“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 on Election Day.
“I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f**king fascists,” she continued:
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.
In other words, Helmuth isn’t too fond of her fellow Hoosiers.
Understandably, fury ensued, and two days later, the hysterical editor apologized. The comments were “offensive and inappropriate,” she wrote.
And, the Post reported, she claimed to “respect and value people across the political spectrum.”
“Election Grief”
On November 6, her website posted a piece called “Election Grief Is Real. Here’s How to Cope.”
That missive from TDS Land is an interview with University of Minnesota headshrinker Pauline Boss. Boss believes that Helmuth’s fury on Bluesky was entirely acceptable.
Boss told the website that Trump’s crushing defeat of Harris — after weeks of pro-Harris propaganda from the leftist mainstream media — is “a kind of loss that I think is causing some grief for people who wanted a different outcome of this election.” And those feelings of “loss” are a “normal response if you’re in the midst of something you didn’t expect and you don’t like, and it came suddenly, unexpectedly. It’s a major loss.”
Perhaps the grief wouldn’t have been so profound if the leftist media hadn’t brainwashed Harris supporters, notably far-left women such as Helmuth, to believe Harris was a sure bet. But forget that not insignificant fact.
We should normalize the anger and the sadness. I think we jump too quickly to pathologize emotions that are scary. I think you need to be patient with yourself if you’re feeling angry, sad, grieving right now. I think that’s a normal reaction to a surprising outcome and an outcome that, in our view, is going backward and not forward.
So accept your feelings. Know there’s no closure to grief. Know you had a loss. List your losses — I would recommend people actually write them down.
(Of course, the election result wasn’t “a surprising outcome” to anyone who listened to serious political analysts such as Mark Halperin. He predicted that Trump would not only win but also run the table of battleground states, which is exactly what happened.)
And, Boss said, the sense of “loss” is deep — very deep — and worse, unresolvable:
The loss of hopes and dreams and plans that they thought were coming from the other candidate; a loss of certainty in the future that was what they wanted; loss of trust in the world as a safe place; loss of feelings of freedom over your own body; the loss of support for people who have lesser means than the rest of us do; the loss of support for your neighbor and people who are different from you — it’s 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.
That would be true if anyone were losing their “freedom over their own body,” which is Sisterhood Code for abortion, but, alas, abortion remains legal nationwide.
Boss even said some voters will get teary-eyed 20 years from now … over an election loss. The deep wound will never heal.
Mental Health Crisis
If true, then the Pew organization’s research on mental illness in 2020 among young women is accurate: Almost 60 percent of young leftist women ages 18 through 29 need a check up from neck up, and almost 40 percent of those between 30 and 49 do.
Halperin also predicted the greatest mental health crisis in the nation’s history if Harris lost.
Thus did Helmuth and more than a few other young women collapse in a lachrymose, scatological rage when Trump walked off with the popular and electoral vote. In some cases, women are shaving their heads and threatening Trump supporters.
SA Endorses Science Deniers Biden and Harris
Not surprisingly, under Helmuth’s leadership, SA endorsed Joe Biden for president this year. Then, after a Democrat-Deep State coup removed him from the race, they endorsed Harris.
Trump, the website claimed, is an enemy of science who mishandled the China Virus panic.
Yet Biden and Harris are both science deniers who believe boys can turn into girls and girls into boys by mutilating their genitals, a belief that Helmuth shares. The website published multiple “transgender” propaganda pieces on the subject, one of which Helmuth recently shared. The article denied the reality and immutability of biological sex and called for “gender-affirming care,” a “transgender” propaganda word for the chemical castration and genital mutilation of kids.
Biden hired science-denier Richard Levine, who calls himself “Rachel” and wears a dress, to be No. 2 at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Levine favors the chemical castration and genital mutilation of pre-pubescent children who wrongly believe they are the “wrong gender.”
