Overnight vandals did “extensive damage” to the Memorial Union and Alumni Park on the UW-Madison campus, in protest of conservative provocateur Matt Walsh’s planned visit to campus, university officials said Monday.
On Monday, protesters demonstrated outside Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus ahead of an event featuring conservative commentator Matt Walsh.
Opposition to conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s visit to UW Madison could be seen and heard throughout the day Monday.
“UW-Madison, by telling a bunch of delusional psychos who are already defacing property that my perspective is harmful — the university, one could argue, is inciting violence against me,” Walsh said.
A crowd of about 250 people gathered outside Memorial Union Monday night to protest the Matt Walsh event hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, demonstrating support of transgender rights.
“It reached its height in the mid to late ’80s, especially at the federal level, [with] people voting [differently] for president and Congress,” Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Vox. But as political polarization, the decline of local news, and the nationalization of local politics have increased in the past two decades, split-ticket voting has been dying a slow death.
Monica Kim, an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
