Small liberal arts college doubles down as being known as a place hostile to conservatives
In the latest exhibit of campus derangement syndrome, a residential life administrator at Beloit College publicly backed a far-left brewery owner whose unhinged social media rants celebrate political violence against President Donald Trump and mock federal authorities. While Beloit’s leadership stays silent on this toxic embrace of “resistance” rhetoric, the institution has blocked conservative students from forming a Turning Point USA chapter and turned a blind eye to vile harassment, labeling them Nazis and celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The scoop comes courtesy of Libs of TikTok, which exposed Amanda Harilal, Operations Coordinator in Residential Life and Housing at Beloit College, for sharing and supporting posts fromKirk Bangstad, the self-proclaimed “progressive” owner of Minocqua Brewing Company. Bangstad, fresh off national outrage for gloating “we almost got #freebeerday” after a foiled attempt on Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, has doubled down with sarcasm aimed at FBI Director Kash Patel (“Eagle-eyed Kash Patel is keeping his eyes on us”) and aggressive promotion of his “8647” non-alcoholic beer line, a not-so-subtle call to “86” the 47th president.
This isn’t some one-off. Bangstad runs the Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC, which has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to mysterious unregistered shell entities like Effervescent Blue and NCPS, neither of which is registered as a business, and both of which use UPS Store addresses. A pending civil lawsuit in Oneida County Circuit Court alleges Bangstad used the PAC to pay himself personal consulting fees through these sham outfits, while the brewery donated peanuts despite public promises
Flash back to last fall. Beloit College reportedly denied students trying to launch a Turning Point USA chapter, with faculty, including the dean of students, refusing to serve as advisors and suggesting they drop the TPUSA name entirely. When conservative student Jocelyn Jordan promoted the effort on Instagram, an anonymous account unleashed a wave of harassment: photoshopped Nazi propaganda with her face, “KKK,” “white supremacists,” and grotesque mockery of Charlie Kirk’s murder. It took the school three and a half weeks to respond. Jordan had to contact the Beloit police herself. Beloit’s excuse? Crickets.
Here’s the kicker for parents writing $62,000+ tuition checks, with total costs pushing $77,000, including room and board. Beloit is a tiny, expensive liberal arts college in an era when these dinosaurs are dropping like flies. Enrollment hovers under 1,000 students, down sharply over the past decade amid a nationwide liberal arts enrollment crisis and the looming demographic cliff of fewer high school grads. The school is bleeding revenue, staging budget cuts, and even facing student sit-ins over housing cost hikes. Families are waking up: why pay premium prices for a campus that indoctrinates kids in hate while bankrupting itself with radical politics?
Beloit isn’t alone. Small private colleges across the country are retrenching, closing majors, or shutting down entirely because they’ve alienated the families who once funded them. But instead of course-correcting toward free speech and actual education, Beloit’s administrators are doubling down on the same toxic brew that’s shrinking their campuses. Beloit College’s latest scandal isn’t just embarrassing; it’s a warning label for any family considering sending their kids (and their life savings) to a failing liberal arts relic that prioritizes anti-Trump vendettas over basic decency and institutional survival.
