Daily Wire Host Michael Knowles appeared at Georgetown University in the opening lecture of a new college tour sponsored by YAF on Tuesday night.
During his lecture, Knowles posed the question: “Is Biden More Evil Than Putin Or Xi?”
Knowles drew parallels between the state-controlled media in Russia and China and the Biden administration’s unprecedented censorship of Americans, such as the throttling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was falsely flagged as likely disinformation by senior intelligence officials sympathetic to the Democratic Party.
Knowles also highlighted the atrocities committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, which has been described as a genocide, and includes forced sterilization and abortions. While decrying those actions as morally indefensible, Knowles noted that Biden and the Democratic Party have tirelessly promoted abortion in the United States – roughly 1 million abortions take place in the U.S. each year.
The Biden administration has also championed experimental procedures for trans-identifying children, including exposure to cross-sex hormones and various body modification surgeries. Knowles argued that minors and their parents can’t truly consent to the lifetime of sterility early medical intervention causes in gender-confused children – children are too young, parents are often cajoled with threats that their child will commit suicide if they don’t “support their transition,” and the desire to remove healthy tissue and artificially modify the body in and of itself calls the mental competence of the patient to make medical decisions into question.
While Knowles argues that the United States is unquestionably a better country than China or Russia, the moral stature of its leadership rests on far shakier ground.
Despite that assessment, and recent polling that suggests Biden is historically unpopular and highly vulnerable politically, Knowles does not believe that the president is going to be removed from the Democratic ticket.
“I know this is countercultural now,” Knowles said, “But I would still put a little bit of money on Biden being on the ticket.”
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Knowles said that despite widespread, and, in his view, well-founded, concerns about the president’s age and mental acuity, Biden is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. Because he has no clear successor, removing him at this stage of the race would result in chaotic infighting.
“It would be an admission that things aren’t going well,” Knowles said. “For Joe Biden not to run for re-election would be an admission that the lights are on, but nobody’s home – and we all know that, but thus far, the Democrats have kept a fairly united front in saying that he’s really running the show.”
Knowles also noted that Joe Biden “has wanted to be president since he was in the womb” and is unlikely to give up his position without a fight.
Knowles argued that the polls were still worth watching, since they demonstrated that Trump could credibly oust Biden in 2024 – Republican critics of Trump have often argued that he’s polarizing and unelectable, citing his narrow defeat in 2020.
“I think the whole talking point is kind of silly,” Knowles said. “We know that Trump can win a general [election], he already did it … he’s won at least one.”