Sounds better than his generalship in the meme wars, when he lied regularly to his staff, changed tack every few days, made his top budget aide cry, defended cronyism, demanded everybody be more conservative, openly practiced sexism, and sold out at the earliest chance https://twitter.com/chadgarland/status/1323232531173511169

"ISCOL 2021: There's absolutely nothing wrong w having smart business people looking at how to fix the VA, this should be fucking celebrated not looked at as some sort of cabal, don't post without changing the headline and let me re read the piece" is a bold campaign slogan

But I'll cherish every one of the many times he reminded me and T&P's Jewish deputy editor that his grandfather cofounded "the socialist Daily Forward"

I have a lot of career regrets, but few are bigger than when the publisher demanded I publish fewer Trump stories and I complied, even telling the talented @PaulSzoldra to hold back on his piece detailing Trump's weird "invisible F35" obsession without telling him why

Of course, there was a naked financial reason Iscol wanted the site to be less critical of Trump and more friendly to the right-wing acquaintances who regularly texted him, but alas, his bid to buy Grunt Style t-shirts never got off the ground

That was awhile after Iscol unilaterally replaced our only female lead editor with a white man, lied that his board had OK'd the decision, and, when asked why no minority or female candidates were even considered, angrily growled to me on the phone: "That's not even on my radar."

Anyway good luck to him in his endeavors, if there's anything the American political landscape needs it's another bored, sexist, dishonest, self-aggrandizing NYC heir with a chip on his shoulder and a strong history of questionable micromanaged business ventures behind him

Also: support @TaskandPurpose, which has fantastic new ownership to go with its always-terrific, conscientious, hard-working staff