JIM GERAGHTY: Wait, You’re Telling Me This Person Is Shifting the Overton Window?

Now I see the New York Times has published a long and mostly positive profile of Jennifer Welch, an interior designer and former Bravo reality TV star, who has co-hosted a podcast since 2022. The Times gushes that Welch is “the rare figure who appeals to the mainstream liberal, angers the Fox News viewer and thrills the dirtbag left. As she challenges Democrats from a more progressive stance, a portrait of Kate Moss in the frame behind her, she provides the sensation of watching the Overton window shift in real time.”

Here’s Welch’s take on Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk:

You are an opportunistic grifter who weaponizes your gender to demean women, and you are a walking, talking, breathing example as to why nobody, number one, wants to be a Christian, and number two, wants to be a female hypocrite such as yourself. . . . This woman should be kicked to the curb.

(The Kirk assassination has really brought out the best in people, huh?)

Welch has argued that Trump voters should be banned from eating at Mexican, Chinese, or Indian restaurants, or using the services of gay hairdressers:

I’ve had it with white people that triple Trumped that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to a gay hairdresser. . . .  White people that triple Trumped should be boycotted, banned from enjoying the best thing that America has to offer, which is multiculturalism. I don’t think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel.

In an October MSNBC appearance, Welch said that Vice President JD Vance “is married to a woman of Indian descent. He has mixed race children. So to all of the MAGA voters out there, if this man will not defend his wife and will not defend his kids, do you think he gives a crap about you or anything to do with you?”

Last month, the London Telegraph gushed, “This sweary ‘wine mom’ is the Democrats’ answer to Joe Rogan:”

Since starting the I’ve Had It Podcast (IHIP) with her best friend Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, Ms Welch’s expletive-laden rants have seen her gain a loyal following of almost four million and frequent Fox News coverage.

She has attacked Donald Trump, calling him a “teeny weeny mushroom c— piece of s— cankles McTaco t-ts”, said JD Vance is a “smokey eye failed drag queen” and likened Stephen Miller to a “Nazi Jew”.

Ms Welch, 51, and Ms Sullivan, 55, start what they boast is “America’s top DEI podcast” by shouting out “patriots, gaytriots, theytriots, blacktriots and browntriots” and telling those who do not support them to “f— off”.

The so-called “wine moms” have now amassed more than 3.8 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, interviewing some of the biggest Democrats in the business, including Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Zohran Mamdani.

Geraghty writes that “NPR, the U.K. Daily Telegraph, and the The Guardian have also written positive profiles about Welch.” There’s no doubt that she’s getting massive amounts of hype from her fellow leftists, but nothing in the Telegraph’s profile indicates that the left have figured out how to produce podcasts that appeal to men, unlike Rogan, who was a Bernie-supporting leftist until his party shunned him for not toeing the official line on Covid.