Religious rights in US under ‘serious attack’ as ‘non-catholic’ Biden fails to act

He added that many practicing Catholics would not support Biden’s “personal brand” of Catholicism, and he is sceptical as to whether it can be classed as such.

“I think President Trump speaks quite clearly to religious issues”, he said.

“It’s a mark of providence and the whimsy of God’s creation that a thrice married, lapsed Presbyterian would sincerely be a strong defender for the religious right in the United States.

“But he is, it’s undeniable. He’s the President who got Roe v Wade overruled. He has defended religious rights at a time that they have seriously come under attack.

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“This is important too. I think that the fashionable, irreligious liberalism of a decade or two decades ago, that has fallen away as people have been to realise that all conflict ultimately is theological.

“All polities have to answer the question, what is good? What is bad? How do we get more good? How do we get less bad?

“The political debate has become more explicitly religious, and the battle lines are clear.”

Knowles added that he is expecting a Trump victory in the 2024 US election, saying polls and other candidates in the mix spell bad news for the incumbent Biden.

Americans can expect radical change should Trump win a second term, with an “aggressive” approach expected.

“When new administrations come into the White House, they would usually replace at most 4-5,000 people”, he said.

“So you would need an order of magnitude more turnover in the bureaucracy.

“President Trump was not able to do that last time, in large part because people did not want to work for him, because we were told that he was Hitler 2.0.

“We were told that he was a stooge of Vladimir Putin.

“We were told this, that and the other thing, all of which turned out to be total bunk and in some cases were lies perpetrated by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the FBI in collusion with one another.

“So I think President Trump will be a bit more aggressive this time and able to switch over some of that personnel.

“If you could seriously transform the bureaucracy, that would be the most significant American political reform in generations.”