Prominent speechwriter for US president says Trump victory is worse than 9/11

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections is worse than the 9/11 attacks according to the former chief speechwriter of former president Jimmy Carter.

Now the national correspondent of the Washington-based monthly The Atlantic, James Fallows, argues that the victory of Trump is a national catastrophe more tragic than the 9/11 terror attacks.

Fallows runs through a list of calamities to hit the United States including “the wars in Vietnam and Iraq” along with “the Kennedy and King assassinations and the 9/11 attacks,” all he argues pale in comparison to the 2016 presidential election.

The former speech writer believes “Trump’s election [was] the most grievous blow that the American idea has suffered in [my lifetime].”

In explaining why he believes Trump’s victory is worse than 9/11, he said: “The Kennedy and King assassinations and the 9/11 attacks were crimes and tragedies. The wars in Vietnam and Iraq were disastrous mistakes. But the country recovered.”

“For a democratic process to elevate a man expressing total disregard for democratic norms and institutions is worse. The American republic is based on rules but has always depended for its survival on norms – standards of behaviour, conduct toward fellow citizens and especially critics and opponents that is decent beyond what the letter of the law dictates. Trump disdains them all,” concluded Fallows.