And The Winner Is...

 Let's take a walk down history lane: Charles Lindbergh, first aviator to cross the Atlantic solo and Nazi sympathizer. 

Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Chinese Republic that eventually became Taiwan, who also suppressed his critics during The White Terror, subjecting his country to thirty-eight years of martial law. 

Adolf Hitler, Austrian born painter and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. His other accomplishments are part of the record. 

Joseph Stalin, who ran the newly minted Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He is widely condemned for overseeing mass repression, ethnic cleansing, wide-scale deportation, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines that killed millions.

George C. Marshall, who oversaw the reconstruction of Europe after World War II, and author of The Marshall Plan, viewed by most as the start of the Cold War.

Harry Truman, took over for Franklin Roosevelt, and held up a paper that had the results of an election that was wrong. He is also the only world leader to ever use nuclear weapons on another country.

Richard Nixon. You remember him? He was an American President. Then he wasn't.

Newt Gingrich, leader of the Republican Revolution of 1994. Filed for divorce from his third wife shortly after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. 

Go ahead and add Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to this list, and you've got just a sample of the folks that Time Magazine has selected as their Man of the Year. Selecting Elon Musk to join this pantheon of infamy seems oddly in step with the way we view our world. Or at least the editors of Time. 

Not Eugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who led insurrectionists away from the Senate chamber on January 6. Not Doctor Anthony Fauci. Not the healthcare workers around the world who have kept us alive during this pandemic. Not Dave Grohl. Instead, we are presented with the billionaire genius who can't figure out how economics work. 

I'd say that seems right on brand.