Since Time Magazine just named Donald Trump as "Person of the Year", Trumpists everywhere are proclaiming his greatness. But what the herd of Trump Sheep don't understand is that the Time selection is not necessarily a popularity contest. It's more a measurement of "impact", be it positive or negative.
So you might say the "Person of the Year" recipients over the decades have been a combination of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Charles Lindbergh, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mahatma Gandhi come to mind in the "Good" category. William Westmoreland, Henry Kissinger, Newt Gingrich and Kenneth Starr are names from the "Bad" group.
Trump fits into the "Ugly" category for this award.
He has had impact, and it has been awful.
Here are some of the other folks to get this distinction largely based on their "Ugly" impact on humanity:
- 1938: Adolf Hitler
- 1939: Joseph Stalin
- 1957: Nikita Khruschev
- 1971: Richard Nixon
- 1979: Ayatollah Khomeni
- 2007: Vladimir Putin
Don't believe me? Here's what the magazine said about their award:
"It's hard to measure the scale of his disruption. This real estate baron and casino owner turned reality-TV star and provocateur -- never a day spent in public office, never a debt owed to any interest besides his own -- now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously. Out of this reckoning, Trump is poised to preside, for better or worse."
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