Jennifer Welch — or as I like to call her, “Jennifer Miserable Wench” — took to her “I’ve Had It” podcast this week to unload on Erika Kirk for the unforgivable sin of looking at a camera.
The widow of assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had the audacity to film a segment for her late husband’s show. She wore black. She looked serious. She spoke about the future of the conservative movement. For this abhorrent crime, Welch dressed up like a discount Matrix extra, mocked the outfit as “cosplaying as an assassin,” and declared Erika “the racist fascist about whom I am talking.”
She used the word “whom!” Brilliant commentary. Except it’s not. It’s performative art for the clinically miserable.
It should go without saying, but this is pretty despicable. Erika Kirk has two small children and no husband. Before Charlie was gunned down in cold blood at a college event last September, most of the world had no idea who she was. After his death, she became the Left’s universal grievance vacuum. The same online ghouls who cheered that assassination are now using Erika as their personal punching bag, drowning her in the same hatred that ultimately killed the love of her life.
She forgave his killer. She kept her family intact. She stepped into leadership at TPUSA to continue what Charlie started. And for that, she is mocked, libeled, and dragged across every podcast willing to platform these people.
She is not your piñata. Stop hating on a widow because it makes your own emptiness feel purposeful. This is Mean Girl 101. Did none of you grow up with sisters?
Now, Welch the Wench. The Kamala-crazed Karen with the botched Botox. This is the same woman who previously called Erika “an absolute grifter,” laughed along with guests rationalizing Charlie’s murder, and once suggested banning Trump supporters from Mexican, Chinese, and Indian restaurants. These aren’t off-the-cuff remarks — they are the brand. “I’ve Had It” is less a podcast than a support group for people whose entire personality is performative contempt.
We used to laugh these people off. We used to condemn them back to their theater-kid corners, where their shrill self-righteousness was safely contained to faculty lounges and group chats. Then we gave them microphones, Netflix deals, and New York Times profiles, treating their rage as profound moral clarity.
What on God’s green earth were we thinking?
Here is the sinister part: Jennifer Welch is not the story. She is the symptom.
There are a million Jennifer Miserable Wenches. They are ubiquitous and multiplying. This isn’t just a sad woman coping with the miseries of her own life by tearing conservatives apart online. It is a pattern of spiritual rot that has consumed the Left entirely. These are the same people who could barely conceal their glee when someone shot at President Trump. They celebrated, openly and grotesquely, when Charlie Kirk was murdered in front of college students. They post sneering jokes about Ben Sasse, a once-in-a-generation man currently dying of five different types of cancer. Nobody is off limits. Not the murdered. Not the grieving. Not the dying.
I didn’t realize we were living under backwards theocratic rule, but here we are, surrounded by a mob of self-appointed moral dictators who have decided that anyone to the right of them deserves whatever they get.
The Left has rejected any shared moral code rooted in religion or natural law. When you strip that away, when you delegitimize your opponents’ basic humanity and decide that disagreement is fascism, hatred fills the void.
Conservatives statistically report higher life satisfaction, stronger marriages, more children, and less depression and anxiety. Deep-blue enclaves have collapsing birth rates and skyrocketing mental illness. These people are not living; they are existing. So they invent a purpose: spreading hatred in the guise of eliminating it.
Can’t they just take up watercoloring?
Erika Kirk is not a fascist. Mussolini was a fascist. Hitler was a fascist. They murdered millions and crushed dissent by force. What Charlie Kirk and TPUSA taught is that America is good, that capitalism, though flawed, is the most humane and helpful system we’ve got, and that Christianity offers grounding and grace. If that message threatens you, the problem is not the messenger.
Welch, Wench, Whackjob: read a history book. Stop flattening it into a weapon you point at grieving widows.
This is no longer a fringe phenomenon. It’s the mainstream Left. The sickness is not spreading in spite of their platforms. It is spreading because of them.
The antidote is millions of young Americans choosing faith, family, and something hopeful worth living for. The antidote is people like Erika Kirk. Conservatives just need to do a better job of defending them.
