Darren Beattie’s Charming Chief of Staff

Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Nathan Simington recently made Gavin Wax, best known for being fired from The Babylon Bee for cursing at a woman online, his chief of staff.

Update, 9/25/2025: According to Gavin Wax’s LinkedIn and X profiles, Darren Beattie – the bigoted, America-hating weirdo who is currently Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State – has hired Wax as his chief of staff. I’ve updated the post title to reflect this. If you’re at all familiar with Darren Beattie, you’ll understand why he would hire Gavin Wax.

“He brings a proven track record in media, communications, and policy strategy, with a career distinguished by leadership in advocacy, political strategy, and organizational management,” Simington’s office said of Wax in an April 21 press release.

Wax, formerly president of the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) and executive director of the National Civil Liberties Union, has a career distinguished by slavish devotion to Donald J. Trump, and a track record of crudely smearing anyone who criticizes him.

Update, 6/6/2025: In celebration of news that President Trump may nominate Wax to replace FCC Commissioner Simington after Simington’s abrupt resignation, enjoy the following sampling of things Wax has said about “seizing” private assets and “nationalizing” companies, including those he would be responsible for regulating as an FCC commissioner.

“President Trump embodies the American people—our psyche from id to super-ego—as does no other figure; his soul is totally bonded with our core values and emotions, and he is our total and indisputable champion. This tremendous connection threatens the established order,” read an NYYRC press release after Trump’s March 2023 indictment.

“American conservatism is, sadly, dead. Its corpse is rotting and putrid,” Wax told a Budapest audience during a 2023 CPAC Hungary speech. “And we should not cry about the failure of this ideology, because it conserved nothing except tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.”

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Under Wax’s leadership, NYYRC mutated from a normal Young Republican club into a rat’s nest of populist bigotry. In August 2020, Jewish media outlet Forward described Wax as “a budding white nationalist.”

At a 2022 “New York Populist Summit” NYYRC cohosted with American Populist Union (APU) leader David Carlson, Wax said:

We need to realize, like the Left does, that all that matters is winning. And however you get there – if you have to be hypocrites, if you have to be ruthless, if you have to be Machiavellian, it doesn’t matter, because if you get what you want, you’re the ones that write history.

Soon after this event, APU merged with Bull Moose Project, where Gavin Wax was a senior advisor. Wax and Carlson appeared together again at a Bull Moose Project event in July 2022.

In August 2023, Wax — who is Jewish — replied to a request to comment on the following neo-Nazi screed written by David Carlson by asking, “What did he say that was wrong you chud?”

I am patriotic and celebrate America because of what it was and might be again one day far from now. Our faith, language, culture, traditions, race, works of art. In short our blood and soil is what produced America the America that is no longer here, yet I celebrate nonetheless.

Carlson wrote the Substack post containing this quote in 2021; in August 2023, Carlson was one of Bull Moose Project’s three executives.

Later that month, Wax endorsed the above quote, saying, “He said nothing wrong, and no amount of Koch money and braindead takes from you will change anything.”

“You guys are all scumbags and gonna lose bad,” Wax told Max Nordau, a supporter of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, on May 26, 2023, minutes after the profanity-laced message to DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw that cost Wax his job at The Babylon Bee.

In September 2023, Wax trashed Pushaw’s “Valley Girl disdain for middle America and MAGA values.” A month later, Wax called Pushaw “an emotionally unstable and insanely petty foreign agent.”

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“This slob is so pathetic,” Wax wrote of conservative radio host Erick Erickson last June. “These controlled opposition ‘conservatives’ spend more time arguing why we shouldn’t bother enacting conservative policies than anything else.”

“This mentality is why Republicans are so weak and pathetic,” Wax replied to a post from Erickson on Christmas Day in 2021. “Biden could literally send you to a camp and they will be talking about taking the higher ground.”

“What’s up with your vaudevillian curly mustache? Are you auditioning as a 19th-century robber baron?” Wax wrote to Chris Loesch, husband of conservative radio host Dana Loesch, last May. “Honestly, it’s an apt role for you, considering it’s comparable to you and your wife’s political grifting. Thankfully, nobody listens to you guys anymore.”

In November 2020, Wax called Jonah Goldberg, founder of conservative news site The Dispatch, “a moron whose entire career is based on who his mom was.”

“Jonah, the only embarrassing thing is the way conservatives have let you slovenly coast through life with your double-digit IQ and subservience to left liberalism. Oh, and living off your wife,” Wax wrote in April 2023.

When Wax was fired by The Babylon Bee, he turned to NYYRC advisor Raheem Kassam for support.

Wax became a contributor to Kassam’s “National Pulse” blog, went on a National Pulse podcast to play the victim, and gave Kassam a copy of his formal termination notice.

Kassam, who has worked for former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, has distinguished himself with a track record similar to Wax’s since immigrating from Britain to the USA:

Kassam wrote the forward to Wax’s 2024 book, The Emerging Populist Majority.

On May 1, FCC Commissioner Simington and Wax co-authored a piece for Kassam’s blog ominously headlined, “Trump vs CBS is Just the Start. Here’s How to Hit the Fake News Where It Really Hurts…”