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Not to be confused with the former The Daily Show correspondent, Matt Walsh.

“”If sex and gender are the same thing, Matt Walsh fans have never had gender.

—Anthony Fantano

“”The pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church is not a pedophile scandal. The vast majority of victims are post-pubescent teens and young men. The real problem in the Church that everyone sees and few will say out loud: gay priests.

—Matt Walsh

Matthew Walsh (1986–) is an American conservative blogger, Daily Wire talking-head, former radio host, and career culture warrior who runs the eponymous Matt Walsh Blog. Most of his blog posts involve him mischaracterizing and insulting things that he doesn't agree with or like, especially trans rights and non-binary rights, trans people and non-binary people, as well as abortion, immigration, gender equality and feminist-oriented causes, such as the pro-choice movement.

On top of all this, he used to write for the far-right webshite The Blaze, although he left in 2017. He runs a podcast, and is active on social media, mostly reposting articles from right-wing media on his favorite topics with short (often one-word) comments. He calls himself a "theocratic fascist" on his Twixter bio and has done so since 2019, although he started doing such in response to being called that by protesters when he was going to give a speech at Baylor University, along with calling himself a biologist and a scholar of women's studies, despite having never attended college and openly hating women and biology.

Walsh currently hosts The Matt Walsh Show at The Daily Wire. The show was completely demonetized on YouTube from April–August 2023 due to transphobic rhetoric. According to the world's smallest violin, this was very bad for Walsh's wallet.

He's also a diaper enthusiast, though "less enthusiastic about diapers when used for their intended purpose". (Women's work only.) One might not normally care that he leads a "Sweet Baby Gang" (his actual phrasing) of adult men who wear diapers for some kind of pleasure or other, except he's now boosted his career in large part by vigorously misconstruing LGBT people as perverted in any way he possibly can. There's something emblematic about it.

Walsh also thinks that public schools should be eliminated entirely.

Wingnuttery

Misogyny

“”Buying a Valentine's Day gift for your wife a month early is the gayest thing you could do.

—Matt Walsh, marriage expert

Despite claiming to be a scholar of women's studies, he perceives the only way to support women is to bash trans women, while still being completely misogynistic against cis women. Walsh presents a very cliched view of gender roles, often attacking men who he disagrees with as unmanly. On the flip side, he often expresses disdain for women in positions of authority or making public statements. Women becoming involved in many elements of pop culture such as music, entertainment, and sports, especially women's sports, he views as emasculating and threatening to the traditional place of men. He also supports cutting women's pay if they ask for a raise.

On his blog, Walsh has said that married women owe their husbands respect whether they've done anything to deserve it or not. In the post, he explicitly states that "a wife ought to respect her husband because he is her husband" and that women should "respect [their] husbands whether he deserves it or not".

Walsh also believes that men and women cannot be friends, and has called arranged marriages better than our current dating system.

Abortion

“”If I could trade in women's suffrage to get back the 60 million humans that feminism killed, I would do it in a heartbeat.

—

He is anti-abortion, saying that "life is precious" (not quite). He has supported Alabama's 2019 bill that outlaws abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, as he believes forcing 12-year-old rape victims to carry to term would help them get their crime discovered and increase the rapist's accountability, and abortion would otherwise destroy the evidence and encourage the rapist to continue molesting without consequence. This fails to make sense once one remembers cases like Josef Fritzl, who was not caught for his crimes for years despite fathering seven children from the incestuous rape of his daughter.

He bolsters such a terrible take with Planned Parenthood conspiracy theories such as linking to an article from a pro-life propaganda site that accuses Planned Parenthood of a sex abuse cover-up, and again using the same website to claim that "[r]apists use abortion to cover their tracks and Planned Parenthood helps them." He also claims that "[t]he deadliest southern border in the world is the birth canal". Walsh wrote an article expanding on this idea and arguing people should call fetuses "undocumented infants." Of course, given Matt has mocked the struggle of undocumented immigrants, him attempting to co-op the language of a movement he does not agree with in order to make his point just comes off as bizarre.

Anti-LGBT

Transphobia

“”The number of supposedly "trans" children and young adults is TEN TIMES HIGHER than the number among older generations. Do you think that's because a lot more people are born in the wrong body these days (whatever the hell that even means)? No, this is social engineering.

Walsh is also very well known for his fervent transphobia, believing that being trans is a mental illness comparable to schizophrenia, stating that "[t]ransgenderism is a myth invented to legitimize sexual deviancy" and advocacy of pedophilia, claiming all trans people are narcissists, blaming acceptance of trans people for suicide rates of trans people, and considering trans allies to be "biology deniers". He would "rather be dead" than have a transgender child. Despite claiming that trans people are caused by "social engineering", he also suggests (in response to an audience question) that people being trans could in fact be caused in part by "biological and chemical changes" from modern medical drugs and genetically modified food. For those keeping track: it makes zero fucking sense to suggest that transness or gender dysphoria are both purely social phenomena and also that there could be biological mechanisms for inducing them.

Walsh supported a bill banning the transitioning of teenagers, greatly simplifying it as "a bill banning the genital mutilation of children". He has also referred to gender-affirmation surgery as "surgical mutilation", accused the parents of transgender children of exploiting their children for attention and said that older children wanting to transition is difficult because it'll be "painful" to have to put your child into therapy. He has also gone on record as stating that transition surgery should be illegal for everyone, also praising Russia for implementing that policy (along with a trans adoption ban) in 2023. If you were wondering whether he might also be against circumcision of newborn infants, he isn't.

In one video for The Daily Wire, Walsh likened gender-affirming care to sexual abuse, saying that "a child who is put on hormones and who has their body being mutilated is being sexually violated in a way that is just as depraved or damaging as molestation or rape", and compared doctors who care for trans children to Nazi scientists. Such doctors, Walsh believes, should be executed or imprisoned for life.

In an act of staggering pettiness and audacity, Walsh rented a home in Loudoun County, Virginia because the school board meeting wouldn't allow non-residents of the county a place in discussing issues related to the school's residents and students. Despite having never lived in Loudoun County and having no family there who would ever attend that school's area. The issue being addressed? Transgender people being able to refer to themselves as their gender, and requiring staff to use their consistently asserted gender when requests of the parents are given. In part of his speech, he shows some self-awareness saying that the school board are poison, and undermining his own ignorance as a science denier on transgender people by saying; “If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless. Worse, it is poison. You are poison!”

In late 2021, Walsh wrote a children's "book", titled "Johnny the Walrus". If you can guess what this book is about, given the section you are reading, congratulations, you have a brain. It's a story about a boy who imagines he is a girl walrus, and when the intertubes find out about it, they force him to go to the doctor to be surgically altered into a girl walrus. The most concerning thing about this book is that it implies men and women are as different from each other as humans and walruses, which is batshit insane. As part of a massive troll campaign, it ended up as the #1 LGBTQ+ book on Amazon, which would admittedly be kind of funny if it wasn't dedicated to spreading hate speech.

In early 2022, Walsh attempted to recruit transgender people into being part of an anti-transgender schlockumentary. It would've been successful if it weren't for PhD candidate Eli Elrick exposing the front on her Twitter account. Later, on June 1, 2022, Walsh released this schlockumentary, titled "What is a Woman?", on The Daily Wire's subscription service. Like other pseudo-documentaries proclaiming to speak the "truth," "What is a Woman?" is practically a 1-and-a-half hour gish gallop full of utter bullshit, pseudoscience, and logical fallacies. Like his usual delusional self, Walsh has proclaimed that the film cannot be debunked and that "The Left is terrified of the film".

In early 2023, Walsh testified at a committee hearing in support of a bill banning "child mutilation" (gender-affirming care). When asked for his qualifications, Walsh ignored the question to waffle about "chemical castration" (a common and deliberate misrepresentation of hormone/puberty blockers). He stated that trans people should not receive treatment until they're 25 when they are mature enough, but when asked if the age of consent and the age to buy firearms should be raised he said no, like that doesn't require maturity. He is noted to take much pride in the fact that he is totally unqualified to talk about these issues.

"Inventing" transgender people

For more information, see: Mistaking the map for the territory

On 23 June 2023, Walsh posted on Twitter:

The trans agenda was invented by pedophilic psychologists, degenerate quacks, lunatic sexologists, literal Nazi scientists, and other assorted deviants. A collection of the most despicable monsters imaginable came up with all of this stuff.

In the thread, the people he lists who supposedly "invented the trans agenda" are: John Money, Alfred Kinsey, Volkmar Sigusch, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Erwin Gohrbandt. The only one among these who was highly foundational to transgender medicine or activism was Hirschfeld. He still did not "invent" transgender people, but rather described their existence and treated them decently, something that was not very common yet. Hirschfeld was far from the first to do so however, as scattered case reports from throughout the 1800s of transgender experience survive today, including some with an affirming approach. Hirschfeld and his staff more-so advanced the methods of an affirming approach (which could have been independently arrived at by anyone with a charitable view) than invented them; prior methods included simple castration.

John Money was a conversion therapist whose brutally-failed experiment on David Reimer was intended to prove that gender identity was not innate (a premise necessary for conversion therapy on transgender people to ever be successful). Money's abuse was exposed in large part by Milton Diamond, a much more pro-trans researcher who viewed gender identity as innate, and especially influenced by hormones in the womb. In contrast to Diamond's more affirming messaging, Money called transgender people "devious, demanding and manipulative" and "possibly also incapable of love".

Walsh cites the German sexologist Sigusch's coining of the term cissexual in the 1990s as a purported origin point for the term cisgender, even though the term cisvestitismus had been used in German since the 1910s (see Cisgender § Etymology for more information) and the term cisgender was independently coined in English in 1994. Gohrbandt (the 'literal Nazi scientist' referenced by Walsh) made little substantial contribution to transgender medicine, performing part of a small handful of surgeries on commission from Hirschfeld's Institute of Sex Research, alongside one of the institute's in-house surgeons. Walsh does not even truly attempt to support his claim that Alfred Kinsey was foundational to transgender medicine or activism. Kinsey is known for his sexual orientation research, and Walsh cites his influence in sex education, making his inclusion in the list strange.

Despite Walsh implying Hirschfeld was a Nazi, he died in exile because of the Nazis targeting him. It is true that Hirschfeld advocated a form of eugenics (including, as Walsh says, against severely mentally disabled people), although he opposed the way it was applied by the Nazis. According to Ralf Dose: "The belief that public health could be improved through eugenic measures was at that time especially widespread among left-of-center physicians." Perhaps the most ironic thing here is that one of the groups who Hirschfeld advocated practicing eugenics against were in fact pedophiles, the people Walsh attempts to conflate with transgender people and their historical advocates in the medical profession. Many scientific fields began with glaring problems or imperfect advocates: or as H.P. Lovecraft put it, "no great discovery comes forth without attendant clouds of error & half truth." Einstein, Darwin, Newton, Aristotle — many fundamental contributors to science held some abhorrent or nutty views, or otherwise made factual errors. The founding father of modern dentistry advocated swishing your teeth with your own piss. Does that discredit tooth-brushing?

It should also be noted that actual Nazis, who blame transgender people on Jewish influence (a narrative which Walsh in fact partially feeds into by claiming trans people are "invented" rather than observed and described), also think Matt's statement makes no sense. Neither of the two groups Matt tried to connect think he has a valid point.

Homophobia

Walsh is anti-gay marriage, claiming that the legalization of gay marriage is part of a left-wing plot to destroy America by eroding and corrupting marriage via the legalization of sexual deviancy.

“”If gay marriage can be justified on the grounds that homosexuals love each other and wish to be together, then any other group may take that reasoning and, if it can be applied consistently to their situation, use it to gain the same rights. This is how logic works. An incestuous couple can use this reasoning same as gays, so can polygamists, so can bigamists. This isn't a slippery slope argument. We've already slid down the slope, and now here we are, in a place where legal marital rights can be granted to people based solely on their affections.

He has also claimed that same-sex marriage is invalid because gay people can't produce children (despite having no problem with infertile straight people getting married). In one article of his discussing how certain media outlets have reported positively on an incestuous relationship, Walsh argued that same-sex marriage and transgender people were worse than incest, polygamy, and pedophilia, writing:

The campaign to normalize incest (sorry, “genetic sexual attraction”) is fully underway. But please don’t call it a slippery slope. There is no slope. Not anymore. We’ve slid down it. The invention of gay “marriage” and the mainstreaming of “transgenderism” were not stops along the slope, preceding things like incest, pedophilia, and polygamy. On the contrary, they were what happened when we got to the bottom. These are not the next frontiers. These frontiers have been traversed; we just didn’t notice it when it happened.

Walsh specifically calls out conservatives who are drawing the line at polygamy, writing that "At least a polygamous marriage can still be procreative, and at least there’s some historical precedent for it." Of course, we also have evidence of unions between same-sex couples in the ancient world.

Likewise, he opposes granting gay people the ability to adopt children, believing that homosexuality is a "sign from nature" that a person is unfit to raise a child.

Walsh believes in the gay agenda conspiracy theory that states children are being brainwashed into becoming LGBT:

“”The number of kids who identify as LGBT, especially trans and bisexual, has absolutely skyrocketed. If you think this is a natural or organic development, you're deluded. The media, Hollywood, and the school system actively recruit children into the LGBT ranks.

—Walsh displaying his extremely logical bigoted and conspiratorial thought process

He claims you can change your sexuality and that the idea of gay rights is "preposterous and insane". He endorses conversion therapy as a method to achieve this, stating that it's a feasible method of changing one's sexual orientation since "no sane person thinks" there is any such thing as "homosexual infants".

Walsh has also blamed the infamous Catholic Church scandal on "gay priests," a defense which could be viewed as homophobia, pedophilia apologia, or even both. (Even thought the Catholic Church bars homosexual men from becoming priests, but that is neither here nor there.)

Regarding gay couples' adoption of children or utilization of surrogacy, Walsh compared it to cutting children's arms off, going as far as to say that it's actually worse than that:

“”"It's far better for a child to be raised lacking one of his arms than to be raised lacking one of his parents. ... homosexual unions are sterile by their nature ... That is a sign from nature, about as glaring and obvious as signs as you can ever see, that gay couples are not meant to have kids.

Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Walsh went on his podcast and whined about how it was a result of the White House recruiting lesbians into the military and therefore making it more feminine.

After a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado in November 2022, Walsh blamed the LGBTQ+ community for the shooting, going on a hateful rant about drag queens in which he claimed that drag shows were inherently sexual, and that drag queens who performed in front of children were pedophiles who are trying to make children queer. He stated that in order to end violence against LGBTQ+ people, drag queens should simply stop performing.

After CNN criticised the Kenyan president for his country's ban on homosexuality, Walsh accused them of molehill mountaineering and asked "What happened to respecting other people's cultures?". One wonders if he would have the same attitude if it was Christianity that was illegal in Kenya.

Miscellaneous

Walsh's opinion on pansexuality is about what you would expect, and then some. Here he explains that pansexuality doesn't exist, yet this thing that doesn't exist is also "scary":

Pansexual is not a thing. It's not real. It's also creepy... Pick a side. Okay? Pick a team. stopping indecisive. That's what pansexual really is... Other people have a right to know if they are potential objects of your sexual fantasies. And so that's why it's not fair to walk around and say, I'm attracted to anyone, anyone at all. No one's safe... Everyone's sitting around and they're all thinking he could be attracted to any one of us right now. Any one of us. It could be any of us. It's scary.

Regarding asexuality, he calls it a "dysfunction of the brain" caused by "spiritual despair". Coming from a mental illness denier, this argument is somewhat peculiar; it certainly demonstrates that Walsh is willing to weaponize the social stigma of mental illness against people he dislikes when it suits him. His statements, which were largely overlooked elsewhere, prompted extended responses from Annamarie Forcino and The Ace Couple. The Mary Sue points out that his position could be interpreted as an extension of his Christian fertility fetish:

Rhetoric of family and procreation appear in religious right criticism of platonic marriage and other ace relationship structures because, perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, sexless marriages challenge the nuclear family structure. In a society increasingly obsessed with white birth rates, there are plenty of reasons why a fascist Christian movement would want people to have as much procreative sex as possible. As long as the context is specifically controlled and religiously approved, that is. Otherwise, the more opportunities for those babies, the better, even if that baby’s existence has to be coerced out of others.

Creepy Uncle Matt's hypocrisy

Despite his constant fearmongering about the LGBTQ+ community being filled with sexual predators, Walsh has espoused a number of very creepy opinions regarding human sexuality.

In response to the allegations of incest and child molestation leveled against reality star Josh Duggar and the eventual cancelation of his family's TLC show 19 Kids and Counting, Walsh all but defended Duggar in his May 2015 Blaze article "The Duggars aren't Hypocrites. Progressives are", where he downplayed the accusations made against Duggar and claimed that because Duggar supposedly "repented long ago" for his "sins", what he allegedly did doesn't matter anymore while the Left and other "anti-Christian folks" are somehow "hypocritical" for criticizing the Duggars for how they covered-up their son's crimes and conservative Christianity as a whole for acting as the moral fiber of society when cases like this occur. Two months after the article's publication in August of that year, Walsh seemingly reversed his stance in a Facebook post where he admitted he was wrong about "the Duggar situation" (his words) and realizing Josh Duggar was in no way sincere in his so-called "apology" to his family. Even here, Walsh still tries to handwave the seriousness of the issue, as he continues to refer to Duggar's alleged crimes as "sins" and "mistakes" (as if raping children is an easily forgivable mishap that can dissolved through prayers and confessions) and stands by several portions of his essay, including part of it where Walsh justified Michele and Jim Bob's decision to hide their son's abuses from the authorities when they became aware of them.

In June 2021, Walsh reviewed a children's book intended to teach children about consent, with the message being not to show physical affection (such as hugging or kissing) without permission. Walsh dismissed the book as "woke" and called it "the worst one yet", and stated "I violate my kids' consent all the time". (To be fair to Matt, he likely meant doing things like telling his kids to clean up after themselves and not the worst things possible, but that begs the question as to why he specifically called the idea of consent sexual earlier in the video. Even if you deny this means the worst thing possible, it still shows his own ideological incoherence.)

In a clip unearthed in October 2022 by Media Matters for America, Walsh stated that teenage pregnancy is not only acceptable, but ideal, as long as the girl is married. He stated that that's when they're "technically most fertile". In response to people being disgusted by these unearthed comments, The Daily Wire spent roughly $100,000 running ads defending him and claiming he was a victim of "cancel culture" due to the incident. He has also gone on record as stating that 13-year-olds are pretty much adults and called the concept of adolescence a "modern plague", despite also claiming that under-25's are pretty much children when talking about trans issues. He further stated that 17- and 18-year-old girls who are "still in high school … want, biologically and metaphysically and with everything in their body, they want to settle down, they want to start a family."

In November of 2022, a clip of Walsh espousing some quite messed up views on rape and consent in general was unearthed by The Serf Times, including of Walsh defending convicted or alleged child sex abusers such as defrocked Cardinal, Theodore McCarrick. Walsh has defended American actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson, arguing based on a highly inaccurate retelling of events that he was wrongly convicted. This was for seemingly no reason other than to make a point about false rape accusations which would then allow him to defend anti-establishment podcaster and former comedian Russell Brand, who has also been accused of rape.

Racism and colonialism

“”Should white men just build, maintain, and run their own airport? I'd be quite happy to use that airport, personally. I think most people would actually.

—Walsh in 2024

Great Replacement conspiracy theory

Following the 2022 Buffalo shooting committed by a white supremacist against black people in a supermarket, there was public discussion about the shooter's belief in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory (a key motivation for the shooting); the conspiracy theory proposes not only that racial demographics are changing and that this constitutes "replacement" of white people (see also: "white genocide" theory), but that there is a plot to cause this to happen. Walsh responded to this by claiming that the "so-called great replacement theory … isn't a conspiracy theory. There's nothing wild or speculative about it. It's just a fact. And one of the ways you know that it's a fact is the left and the media — The New York Times, CNN — they've been very open about it, many times. So if it is a theory — if the great replacement theory is a theory, then it's a theory propagated by the left."

Colonialism

In 2023 Walsh released a video in which he stated that the people who colonised the United States were "heroes" who should be celebrated, and that the colonisation was an unambiguously noble action. In fact, the only kind of colonisation that he considers wrong is what he describes as "cultural colonisation...when Western governments fly the pride flag on their embassies and export the LGBT agenda and gender ideology into Africa and other regions that don't want it." In other words, "Native genocide good, promoting LGBT rights bad".

Genocide denial

See the main article on this topic: Genocide denial

Unsurprisingly, Walsh is a frequent denier of the multiple historical cases of ethnic cleansing of Natives in North America. He believes Andrew Jackson was a great man who deserves to be honoured, in spite of his many crimes such as the Indian Removal Act and the destruction of Negro Fort.

More recently, Walsh became an ardent defender of the Canadian residential schools in which hundreds of indigenous children were murdered, claiming that a mass grave is a completely normal thing for a school to have. He has also called the story a "nefarious hoax", thus putting his name next to that of asshole extraordinaire William Donohue on the list of people who claimed the deaths were fake news.

Mental health

For more information, see: Mental illness denial

Anxiety and depression

Walsh does not seem to believe in the theory that chemical imbalances substantially contribute to depression, which it is strongly implied that he denies that antidepressants can treat it. While claiming that suicide is a choice, he also claims that the notion of chemical imbalances causing depression has supposedly been "thoroughly debunked over and over again", then proceeding to cite how drug companies bring in hundreds of millions of dollars treating it, with Walsh not even bothering to explain how what is supposedly a lie can make companies that much money.

ADHD

He is also an ADHD denier, trotting out the usual old canards of the "environment filled with distractions" and that, like depression, it's just an invention of Big Pharma (never mind the processes of what actually goes into DSM-5; it's not easy). There's a bit of Boomer-esque griping about humanity's declining attention span, posted on Twitter, a site about short, shallow distracting soundbites. Never mind that ADHD has a long history, having been documented since at least the early 18th century.

DID

Walsh's disbelief for DID primarily comes from a belief that some of the the people who claim to have it are lying. One segment from 2022 sees him claiming that Shirley Ardell Mason of Sybil fame did not have this disorder, which he uses as a jumping off point to call the entire illness fake. Although this is certainly possible, this also holds no relevance to if this specific disorder exists. All it would mean is that one person lied about having it.

In 2012, both raocow and ProtonJon played a rom hack called Notte Luminosa at the request of the romhacker, named Yanama, who claimed to be dying from leukemia, even though this was a lie. But this obviously does not mean that leukemia, which causes the death of over twenty thousand people a year, does not actually exist. It just means that Yanama specifically was lying about having it. In the same regard, one person lying about having DID does not mean DID does not exist, just that one person lied about having it.

Authoritarianism

Walsh shows many signs of being a wannabe dictator. He staunchly endorses stripping people of the right to vote if he considers them to be "ignorant" or "non-contributing" or feels that they "don't deserve it", and specifically only wants people to vote if they pay taxes and have passed an 8^th-grade civics exam. Walsh has accused activists who want voting to be universal of voter fraud, and tweeted that it should be easier to buy a gun than vote. He also supports criminalizing adultery, drag queen story hour, and critical race theory.

Not only did Walsh condemn businesses that required masks to be worn during the COVID-19 pandemic, he believes that face masks should be made illegal.

After Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspended an elected prosecutor for not prosecuting enough abortionists or gender-affirming care providers and arrested several people for legally voting, Walsh endorsed him for President explicitly because of his dictatorial actions.

In 2023, Walsh called for the US government to arrest and imprison all suspected criminals without due process, championing the use of this approach in El Salvador and commending the country's use of inhumane prisons. Walsh acknowledged that many innocent people would likely be caught up in this blatantly unconstitutional solution to crime but declared that it was worth ignoring the due process rights of ordinary people to deter people in San Francisco from shoplifting. He's also advocated for the use of torture against petty criminals and the execution of drug dealers.

As a self-described theocrat, Walsh has defended the Spanish Inquisition, which he believes "gets a bad rap". He has not yet explained his reasoning, leaving us to conclude that he supports the persecution of all non-Catholic religions.

Firearms

Although he has quieted down in recent years about guns compared to his younger self, it's unlikely his views have changed, due in no small part to what he advocates would be acceptable punishment for petty criminals:

Our Founding Fathers had very specific goals in mind that they wanted to accomplish. There wasn’t a generalized sense of outrage. It was, these are our goals we want to accomplish. And by the way, they were willing to back it up with guns and violent force. If you want extreme things to happen, you have to be willing to take — to go to extremes. … Everyone keeps bringing up our Founding Fathers. They were willing to pick up guns and kill people for what they wanted. A sign won’t do it. And calling your congressman won’t do it.

After being called out for his horrific ideals by the public, he later doubled down on his radio show, saying things somehow more deranged than the aforementioned material:

If you want extreme change, you must take extreme action… You have to make people hurt... we probably lost our republic after Reconstruction, not willing to do what they [the Founding Fathers] did.

Walsh said this implicitly criticizing the country’s first attempt at a multiracial democracy after the Civil War.

Hit pieces

Walsh spends much of his bandwidth attacking a handful of progressive figures, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and organizations that back progressive causes or, in some cases, simply do not hold positions as extreme as his own. Bizarrely, he has also repeatedly tried to smear Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as radical Marxist extremists, when a cursory look at their actual records and agendas would leave genuine Marxists sorely disappointed at best; in Walsh’s mind, everyone who doesn’t support the GOP is a commie, no matter how staunchly pro-capitalist they’ve always been.

Defending insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt

Walsh has compared unjustified shootings of black people to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt, a right-wing insurrectionist who was killed after charging a police officer while storming the U.S. Capitol, calling Black Lives Matter hypocrites for protesting over the deaths of unarmed black people but not protesting over the killing of a white insurrectionist. He also JAQed off during one of his videos on the subject, suggesting that the officer shot an unarmed woman out of partisan hatred for Trump supporters.

Climate change denial

See the main article on this topic: Climate change denial

In addition to the above video, Walsh has suggested without evidence that climate protestors are nearly all mentally ill, and responded to an incident in Panama where two protestors were shot dead in cold blood by blaming the victim, saying that it was their fault for blocking the road and suggesting they had it coming.

Vaccines

“”How do doctors do whole entire surgeries while wearing surgical masks? I feel like I’m going to suffocate after wearing one for 45 seconds.

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Despite claiming to have "no stance" on vaccines, Walsh, in all seriousness, accused the Sesame Street character Big Bird of being a drug dealer with the voice of a 'child molester' for telling children to be vaccinated. He also released a video in which he discussed why he refused to vaccinate his children against COVID-19, complete with a segment of him spreading FUD about the vaccine's long-term effects.

No fun allowed

Satanic anime

In October 2022, Walsh argued that all anime programs (Japanese-animated cartoons) are Satanic, in an effort to own the libs. He stated: "I have no argument for it. I have no argument for why it's Satanic. It just seems that way to me." He later added that anime will "literally lead to demonic possession in upwards of 87 percent of cases, studies show." The Church of Satan was not amused with Walsh's antics.

This claim is especially stupid since there are some Christian animes like Superbook and The Flying House, as well as a few that contain Christian themes such as Trigun (whose creator, Yasuhiro Nightow, is even Catholic), and some anime doesn't even contain any fantasy or supernatural elements- for instance, Black Lagoon.

Recreational drugs

Walsh is opposed to cannabis use, but supports tobacco smoking. His argument regarding this turns on an appeal to productivity, that is, if everyone smoked cannabis they would be less economically productive, and if everyone smoked tobacco they would be more productive. He adds: "Without a tobacco plant, this country doesn't exist. So it has been crucial, central to this country from its foundation. The same cannot be said for marijuana. Tobacco is as American as apple pie." However, if all he cared about was economic productivity, he would in turn need to reconsider his anti-LGBT, and anti-immigration positions.

Video games

Walsh has argued a number of times that video games are harmful; he refers to video games as a "sacred cow".

In 2018, he wrote a column for The Daily Wire titled: "Stop Pretending Violent Video Games Are Harmless Just Because You Like Playing Them". In this column, Walsh asserts that the claim "the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts" is an "extremely logical and irrefutable argument"; he claims this right after stating that it is a straw man to claim that anyone "blames mass shooting ^[sic] on video games". He then argues that violent video games are not healthy for children (or anyone) to play, and anticipating his opponents citing studies that show no causal link between violent video gaming and real-life violence, argues: "You can cite the studies 'proving' that violent video games don’t contribute to violence in kids. I can cite the studies 'proving' they do. And we can go round and round, throwing studies at each other until it finally dawns on us that maybe some things can’t really be proven or disproved with a study." He then appeals to "common sense" as an alternative, and argues video games should only be played in moderation.

Then he insults people whose hobby is playing violent video games: "Your favorite recreational activity is to pretend that you are killing people. You probably will never kill a single person in real life, but it’s still not good; it’s still unhealthy; it’s still pretty disturbing that you find so much joy in simulated death and destruction. … [Violent video games and movies] feed the twisted part of [one's] brain that delights in ugliness. We all have that in us, to some extent, in one form or another. But we should not indulge the instinct. We should not embrace it and fuel it. We bring ourselves into dark places when we do. Even if the dark place does not involve shooting up a school, it is still a dark place, and it is better to be in the light. … Social media. Movies. TV. All of these things have interfered with our ability to react and respond like human beings. So, video games are not the only culprit. But they are a culprit. And for some people — the people who play a lot of video games, and especially a lot of very violent video games — they probably are a major culprit." Thus he ends the column by making an argument which, at the beginning of the column, he claimed nobody ever made.

In 2019, he wrote another column, going further: he claims that most studies have showed a link between real-life violence and playing violent video games. He also argues that the "real danger of video games" isn't violence but instead "the same sort of danger inherent to television and to the internet. These things, if consumed immoderately, cause isolation and loneliness." However, he then turns around and states that: "The Sandy Hook shooter was obsessed with video games, playing them for up to ten hours a day. Gamers who suggest this fact is completely irrelevant and utterly disconnected from his eventual burst of murderous violence are defying common sense." He adds that he is not in favor of censoring video games, but rather parents "strictly regulating" how much their children play them.

Yoga

On the just downright silly side of Matt's opinions, he does not believe Christians should be engaging in Yoga, and expressed this view in an article with the headline "Yoga Is A Pagan Ritual. Maybe Christians Should Find A Different Workout Routine." Funnily enough, despite Walsh being a practicing Catholic, one of his sources is Albert Mohler, who has said the Catholic Church "is a false church and it teaches a false gospel."

Homelessness

Walsh believes that homelessness is a lucrative industry which allows homeless people to make hundreds of dollars a day and that the majority of homeless people are "crazy, violent drifters" who are homeless because they spend all their money on drugs.

Stopped clock moments

See the main article on this topic: Stopped clock

• Walsh has criticized Donald Trump numerous times.
• He has criticized young Earth creationism and the belief that the word "day" in the book of Genesis absolutely must refer to a literal, 24-hour day.
• He supports restoring voting rights to convicted felons.
• He has shown awareness of police brutality, making a surprisingly levelheaded, nuanced video where he:
  • Admitted to dismissing the issue in the past
  • Acknowledged that the hysteria surrounding the issue was not as prevalent as he made it out to be and that there are still concerning trends within the police force
  • Dismantled common excuses that are often used to downplay or even excuse the issue.
• He argued with prominent alt-righter Nick Fuentes.
• He knows the Apollo missions have happened and that humans have indeed flown to the moon. In light of this, he published a video criticizing moon landing hoax conspiracy theories.
• Not a big fan of raw milk.

External links

• Matt Walsh's garbage dump itself
• The Anti-Matt Walsh Blog, a temporary blog dating from 2014 dedicated to documenting and refuting the views of Matt Walsh
• His YouTube channel
• "The Sad, Unremarkable Mind of Matt Walsh - Part 1", and Part 2