“We’re middle-aged,” podcaster Jennifer Welch says of herself and her co-host, Angie Sullivan. “We’re Fox News–coded.” The Fox vibe can leave people uneasy, she says. “‘Oh, shit, where were these women on January 6?’”

But the J6 impression doesn’t last. On their hugely popular podcast I’ve Had It, Welch and Sullivan waste no time in uncorking woke sass. Last August, Welch went viral, saying, “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 perhaps their gay hairdresser—I don’t think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel.” Welch’s mean-girl nickname for Trump—“Canks,” for his swollen calf-ankles—won her more praise for gall, as has her ruthless criticism of moderate Democrats. 

Being leftists in Fox’s clothing turns out to be an excellent political niche. Last year, left-wing Gen Z podcaster Matt Bernstein admiringly interviewed Welch on a show called “The Liberal Wine Moms are Radicalizing.” Rad streamer Hasan Piker praised the Welch-Sullivan show as “the most radical progressive podcast in North America.” With their down-home accents and brassy style, Welch and Sullivan seem to have resurrected Ann Richards, the iconoclastic pro-choice governor of Texas in the 1990s. They have millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, and their show is often at the very top of Apple Podcast ratings.

But they and other Fox blondes with left-wing views are also........

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