Granted, the designation of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” has lost as much luster as the Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year,” which is close to the shine lost off the once-grand belt that signified the heavyweight championship of the world.
But Time’s selection of president-elect Joe Biden and his vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, is a head scratcher, a lingering stain on the click-bait culture that has widened our political divide.
Let me be the first to hope that Biden and Harris are picks for the 2021 Person of the Year. Here’s hoping they lead an overhaul return to a surging economy, address the insane deficit, help find our next normal, uncover the reasons for New Coke, an explanation for what’s in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase and a way to get Nick Saban into the White House Cabinet and out of the SEC.
Unlike a swath of anti-Trump folks who have seemingly rooted for America’s failure so it would look bad for the next president, I am 100% hoping that Biden is a mixture of Washington, Jefferson and both Roosevelts while managing our ever-growing debt like a middle-class mom with a calculator and a collection of TFP coupons.
I doubt it, of course, but I am certainly rooting for it.