18 Truth Bombs from Matt Walsh’s Interview with Tucker Carlson

Since his earliest days in radio, the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh hasn’t shied away from sharing his opinions, however unpopular or counter cultural they may be.

The Maryland native asks questions others are reluctant to pose, gives answers that make the politically correct squirm, is unapologetic in his defense of common sense and remains unwavering when calling out the inane, ignorant and ideologically bad ideas that threaten culture.

So, it wasn’t a surprise that Matt Walsh’s appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show was a tour de force – a hearty defense of conservative ideals accompanied by masterful commentary explaining why the family is under attack and why its defense and survival are critical to America’s health and prosperity.

You can watch or listen to the interview in its entirety here, but here eighteen of some of the most powerful things Matt Walsh shared:

On why same-sex adoption is so destructive:

• “The whole point is to create, the whole point of the family is to make children and care for them. And a family that’s headed up by two gay men [doesn’t do that], that’s why it’s an abomination.”

On same-sex surrogacy contracts:

• “We keep hearing about this right to parenthood. I mean, you have gay couples now that are demanding insurance cover fertility treatments as if the reason why two men can’t make a baby is because of fertility problems. No one has a right to be a parent. It’s great to be a parent if you can, but you’re not born with those entitlements. You’re not entitled to a child.”

• “A child has a right to a mother and a father. A child has a right to the basic fundamental setup that billions of kids throughout history have had, which is a mother and a father.”

On the destructiveness of so-called gender surgery:

• “There are certain things as human beings that we just know, and one of them is that sexually mutilating a child is bad.”

• “Another one is that a child needs a mother and father. We just intuitively know that. I don’t need any study” [to tell me that].

Why has gender confusion skyrocketed?

• “Why did it catch on to such an extent? I think that the side that was supposed to stand up for the family and stand up for civilization largely failed and abdicated their responsibility to do so. Conservatives, the church has just largely failed. And not even failed, not even tried, really. And so we have a lot of hypocrites on the right and in the church, unfortunately, who are just claiming to believe things they don’t really believe.”

Could more families survive on one income?

• “I think that there are families where both parents have to work. I think there are a lot of families where they think both parents have to work, but they don’t actually have to. It just depends on what your priorities are, and if you’re willing to make the sacrifices.”

How can you pull it off?

• “If you’re willing to say, ‘Okay, we’re gonna downsize our home, we’re gonna share bedrooms, we’re gonna have one TV, we’re gonna have one car, we’re gonna go on much more modest vacations, and we’re gonna cut things down to the bone a bit, because it’s worth it to us to be able to keep mom at home and to be able to home school or whatever, it is. So, I think if you’re willing to say that a lot of people could do it.”

Is the tradeoff worth it?

• “I much prefer having money to not having it, but not at the expense of having someone else raise my kids.”

What are the benefits to having mom at home with young children?

• “It’s just a fundamentally happier home in my experience when the children are being raised by their mother, by their parents, the kids are happier. And beyond happiness, you can control how your children are raised, and you can raise them with your value system and maintain that, which is almost impossible if you’re putting your kids in public school, let’s say.

On the destructiveness of public schools:

• “It’s almost impossible (to keep keeps from liberal propaganda) because the kids are going to spend five days a week, seven hours a day, nine months a year for 12 or 13 years of their formative years, not with you or your wife in this government indoctrination center around their peers. And so inevitably, they’re going to be absorbing, they’re going to start orienting themselves to the world based on that, by looking at their peers, not even so much what their teachers are telling them, but what their peers are doing. And that’s what’s going to happen.”

Is it really wrong to “Keep your kids in a bubble?”

• “I absolutely want to keep my kids in a bubble. I really do … You are supposed to be providing an environment for your child to grow and develop and mature, physically, morally, spiritually, have a childhood, have actual childhood experiences. I hear from people all the time, people my age and older that say, ‘Oh man, I remember when I was a kid and we were outside, we would run around in the woods and we would be outside all the time playing tag. And I just wish my kids had that because the kids these days are just on the screens all day.’”

What are some practical ways to save your children from radical indoctrination?

• “Well, it starts with that we don’t send them to public school. You know, we have always homeschooled from the beginning, so that’s a big step. They don’t have phones. They don’t have access to any screens, except for our family TV. We have a family TV. There’s a policy my wife and I have had since the beginning: we don’t do screens. There will be no screens in a room that has a door on it. So we have one TV and it’s in a very public area of the house where anyone can hear it when they walk in. And that’s it.

• “Our kids can watch TV. They can’t watch it all day, but they can watch it. And we’re going to know anything that they watch. They’re not going to just sit there on the TV and choose something and tell us what you want to watch. If it’s something I never heard of, well, you’re not watching that until I can watch it first. And they don’t have any Internet access at all.

• “No phones, no tablets, nothing like that. No laptop, no computer at all. And our oldest kids are almost 12 now.”

On the importance of praying and praying as a family:

• “I think it’s important to be on your knees. You don’t have to be on your knees to pray. There’s a perfectly valid prayer if you’re not on your knees. But if you can, I think you should be … I think it’s a good image for the kids to see. It’s a good image. It’s good for my kids to see me on my knees. Because to my kids, I am the authority figure in the home. I don’t answer to anybody in the home. I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission for anything.

• “I’m ultimately like the source of discipline in the home, as the father, as I should be. But for them to see that, oh, even that guy, even dad, who in the home, this is his castle, but even he is showing submission and obedience and humility towards some power above him. I think that’s a really powerful image for my kids to have, and that I had with my own dad growing up.”

Ultimate goal as parents?

• “My political ideology at this point is that I want my kids to go to heaven. I want my kids to go to heaven and I want them to be good and happy people. That’s what I want. So, everything that we do in the home, and we’re not perfect, we don’t get this right perfectly, not even close to it, but everything we do in the home should be tailored towards that end to help our kids be good and happy people.”

Married to Alissa since 2011, and a father to six children, Matt Walsh doesn’t just speak in theory but possesses a practical passion that’s been informed and inspired by years of real-life experience. May the Lord continue to protect, bless and broaden his platform and use him to inspire, encourage and convict those with eyes to see and ears to hear.