How could it have been anyone else?
It could’ve been someone else, but Trump so dominated the political and cultural landscape, culminating in his landslide (yes, it was a landslide, and don’t let anyone tell you it wasn’t) election that had TIME chosen anyone else, their bias would’ve been glaringly obvious.
And they can’t be glaringly obvious about their anti-American, progressive worldview. It only works when it’s subtle.
Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history. His first term ended in disgrace, with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results culminating in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was shunned by most party officials when he announced his candidacy in late 2022 amid multiple criminal investigations. Little more than a year later, Trump cleared the Republican field, clinching one of the fastest contested presidential primaries in history. He spent six weeks during the general election in a New York City courtroom, the first former President to be convicted of a crime—a fact that did little to dampen his support. An assassin’s bullet missed his skull by less than an inch at a rally in Butler, Pa., in July. Over the next four months, he beat not one but two Democratic opponents, swept all seven swing states, and became the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. He has realigned American politics, remaking the GOP and leaving Democrats reckoning with what went awry.
Trump has a ready explanation for his improbable resurrection. He even has a name for its climactic final act. “I called it 72 Days of Fury,” he says as the interview gets under way. “We hit the nerve of the country. The country was angry.” It wasn’t just the MAGA faithful. Trump harnessed deep national discontent about the economy, immigration, and cultural issues. His grievances resonated with suburban moms and retirees, Latino and Black men, young voters and tech edgelords. While Democrats estimated that most of the country wanted a President who would uphold the norms of liberal democracy, Trump saw a nation ready to smash them, tapping into a growing sense that the system was rigged.
If America was craving change, it is about to see how much Trump can deliver. He ran on a strongman vision, proposing to deport migrants by the millions, dismantle parts of the federal government, seek revenge against his political adversaries, and dismantle institutions that millions of people see as censorious and corrupt. “He understands the cultural zeitgeists,” says his 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who remains a close adviser. “Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas, and way too many politicians are the exact opposite.”
You can tell in those three paragraphs that the TIME writers hated writing any of it. It goes on like that for thousands of words.
TIME magazine has been an irrelevant leftist rag for the last thirty years. I used to subscribe to it in my twenties but over time noticed that it wasn’t objectively reporting “news” but offering opinion disguised as “news.” I dropped my subscription after that and never looked back.
The only good thing about this year’s “award” is that TIME was forced to give it to Trump.
Have a good weekend.
I watched a commentator on Fox News say that the biggest loser in the last election was Obama because he picked Harris and was pushing her to win. I remember hearing this back when Biden picked her as VP, that actually she was Obama’s pick and he was going to promote her to run for President. She ran and she lost Big Time! As a result, the commentator said, Obama has lost his political power, his friends in Hollywood, etc. Obama losing his political power may have been his big loss but definitely our Big Win!!!
Obama’s influence is certain to wane in the aftermath of the election; plus, all that’s currently going on in the Middle East can be traced back to his administration, including the collapse of Syria.