The ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast is common with disaffected Democrats : NPR

For individuals who do not just like the Trump administration’s insurance policies or how the Democratic Celebration has responded, there is a good likelihood I’ve Had It has come throughout their social media feeds.

It solely takes a couple of seconds of listening to get a way of who hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan take into account their target market — and the goal of their ire.

“Patriots, Gaytriots, Theytriots, Blacktriots, Browntriots and to all of the crusty motherf****** that do not assist them, you possibly can f*** off,” one latest episode started.

Welch is an inside designer. Sullivan, an lawyer. They’re two middle-aged suburban ladies from Oklahoma — and one-time Bravo actuality TV stars — whose present has come to signify a vocal coalition of a liberal base who has, nicely, had it, with Democrats.

“It feels just like the ‘Preservation Celebration,’ that they need to protect the established order,” Welch mentioned in an interview. “It nearly feels conservative within the sense that they aren’t evolving and they aren’t transferring.”

Talking to NPR on the finish of October, Welch and Sullivan talked in regards to the present’s rising reputation and the Democratic Celebration’s unpopularity amongst voters who say its leaders do not battle towards President Trump sufficient.

“Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, they’re writing strongly worded letters and it is like, this man’s tearing down democracy,” Sullivan mentioned of the Home and Senate Democratic leaders. “We want extra motion than we’d like strongly worded letters.”

The 2 hosts have totally different backgrounds — Welch is a lifelong liberal atheist who’s all the time been outspoken and simply moved to New York Metropolis for a spell, whereas Sullivan was raised as a conservative evangelical Christian who has slowly change into extra snug with sharing her political beliefs.

Each say that key Democratic Celebration leaders aren’t doing sufficient to face up for marginalized teams, to assist younger and progressive candidates like mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in New York Metropolis, or to push again towards Trump insurance policies.

A kind of latest moments on show was with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who was requested about Israel’s warfare in Gaza. Extra particularly, he was requested if he thought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “a warfare prison,” allegations that Netanyahu has rejected.

“These are questions that lots of people suppose are the vital litmus checks which are loaded and sizzling,” Booker mentioned, visibly flustered. “My urgency is to be an efficient chief in bringing an finish to this disaster. And I get these questions on a regular basis that, to me, undermine my urgency.”

The identical senator who spoke for 25 hours on the ground in April to protest the Trump administration, Welch mentioned, filibustered what must be a easy sure or no query.

“The factor with Cory Booker is, I can disagree with him if he is f***** trustworthy,” Welch mentioned of the interplay. “However to present us a rooster**** cowardice reply about ‘Is Benjamin Netanyahu a warfare prison?’ The reply to that’s objectively sure.”

Her reply illustrates another excuse some of us cannot get sufficient of I’ve Had It: a model of uncooked, unvarnished and sometimes rude descriptions of American politics proper now.

In an episode referred to as “America’s Dumbass Dictator” that premiered on Election Day final week, Sullivan bemoaned what she referred to as the “propaganda machine of MAGA” across the suggestion that Trump might illegally run for a 3rd time period.

“I really feel like we have gone from both you are on the aspect of legality, the Structure and democracy, otherwise you’re full-blown fascist and you do not give a s***,” she mentioned.

Welch says the podcast’s tone is simply how folks discuss: “slightly little bit of gossip, slightly little bit of coverage, slightly little bit of ‘F yous’… it is extra digestible, it is extra attention-grabbing that approach.”

She additionally factors to Trump’s new media successes and the way he makes politics extra conversational.

“I disagree with every part he says, I believe he is a compulsive liar, etcetera… however the way in which we discuss is basically the way in which Trump has been doing it the final ten years on podcasts,” Welch mentioned.

Jennifer Welch (L) and Angie Sullivan (R) attend a GLAAD Satisfaction Month occasion on June 26, 2025 in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sullivan provides that the duo’s self-deprecating humor is vital.

“I do suppose that since we do not take ourselves so critically — like so many politicians — it makes us extra like only a gal pal that you just’re operating round with,” she mentioned.

On-line, clips from the present have gone viral for his or her salty language and pejorative descriptions of Trump, Vice President Vance, Home Speaker Mike Johnson and different Republicans.

But it surely’s their withering rebukes of Democratic Celebration leaders — typically to their faces — which have additionally helped the duo acquire hundreds of thousands of followers throughout Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and extra.

“Hakeem and Chuckles – that is what we name Chuck Schumer – and the Cory Bookers of the Democratic Celebration, if they do not get their s*** collectively, a grifter very like Donald Trump will are available in and fill that void,” Welch mentioned.

The twice-a-week “I’ve Had It” and its shorter twice-a-day information counterpart “IHIP Information” discover themselves on prime podcast charts subsequent to exhibits just like the Rachel Maddow Present and the Charlie Kirk Present, amassing lots of of hundreds of views and listens every week throughout mediums.

“We’ve got all age teams, pink states, blue states, rural areas, massive cities,” Welch added, when requested about who’s consuming their content material. “What’s so attention-grabbing about us is that we’re middle-aged ladies from a pink state, and it is like, ‘Oh my God, white folks do care! Additionally, the truth that we’re novel — that, I believe, is kinda unhappy.”

At a time when the political podcasting area is dominated by the manosphere and a seek for the “Joe Rogan of the Left” to convey voters again to the Democratic Celebration, the “I’ve Had It” hosts say their present is making an attempt to nudge elected officers again in the direction of the voters.

“I am cautious to have the mentality that plenty of leftists do: ‘Let’s simply burn all of it down, it is the one approach we’ll get higher,'” Welch mentioned. “I say, let’s confront and push the politicians we’ve got so far as we are able to. And if that makes them each weak to major, then they weren’t the fitting chief for us anyway.”