Time Magazine has sometimes chosen their Person of the Year not for being the most admired, but for wielding the most power (culturally or otherwise) over a large part of the world. See 1938 when they chose Hitler. Choosing Trump is an ominous signal for the years to come.
Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938
Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic...
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