Jennifer Welch is the hot new pundette on the hard left. The New York Times posted an Amanda Hess valentine on how she’s hammering the Democrat establishment from the Left, and they’re here for it!
The headline: "Is This Former Bravo Star Democrats’ Toughest Critic?" Let's guess this means toughest from the "right direction."
She's transformed from a Bravo reality-TV star to a trash-talking Trump-trasher with her "I've Had It" podcast with Angie "Pumps" Sullivan, her Bravo co-star. Hess, a cultural Critic At Large for the Times, hailed them: "They once railed against the kinds of people who clap when the airplane lands. Now they have had it with fascists, and the 'self-hating dweebs' they say power the Make America Great Again movement."
The most recirculated quote is when Hess asked Welch “when her political instincts began to evolve.” Moving left is an “evolution.”
“I used to be a good MSNBC liberal that libbed out and bought into all of that,” Ms. Welch explained. But “when you lose a political race two times to a moron,” as she put it, referring to Mr. Trump, “you really have to go, ‘OK, what in the actual fuck is going on?’”
Hess admires Welch’s current toehold on the political spectrum:
All of this has made Ms. Welch into 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.
The "dirtbag left" sounds negative, but it's a term of endearment for the Bernie Sanders socialist hardliners. How leftist is Walsh now that's she's "evolved"? Radical Muslim Hasan Piker, the man who supported the massacre of October 7 and claims America deserved 9-11 (and drew his own Times puff piece) is a Welch fan, which is allegedly a good thing:
But first, Ms. Welch took a detour to visit the leftist streamer Hasan Piker, spent an hour and a half chatting on his livestream and then joined his podcast to talk some more.
Mr. Piker has been a fan for years, and he introduced Ms. Welch on his show as “one of the leaders of the radical wine mom brigade,” a lightly patronizing framing that nevertheless can work to Ms. Welch’s advantage.
His audience, he wrote over email, has been “captivated by the juxtaposition of a tall blonde Anglo-Saxon woman from Oklahoma with seemingly endless empathy for the downtrodden.”
Hess and the Times love how she rips the "centrists."
Then Mr. Trump won a second term. When Mr. [Rahm] Emanuel came on this spring, called the party’s advocacy for trans people “nuts,” then labored to land a prepared joke about Democrats focusing on “kitchen table issues” instead of “bathroom issues,” Ms. Welch felt a surge of adrenaline.
“I just went bananas,” she said. “I physically felt what he was doing — how opportunistic it was, how inauthentic it was and how insincere it was. But most importantly, how dangerous it was.”
Welch is hot enough that the "centrists" she's ripped -- Emanuel, Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries -- all claim to love her and her show.
Kiley Josey, the 30-year-old producer of the podcast, said that even after Ms. Welch calls Democrats names, their teams remain in close touch, eager to brief her on their wins. “I don’t think anybody wants to be on our bad side,” she said.
The New York Times should be on her good side after this puff piece.
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