MAN OF THE YEAR – AT 10:46 A.M. ET:  TIME has made its choice, and it's an obvious one.  From TIME: 

This is the 90th time we have named the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year. So which is it this year: Better or worse? The challenge for Donald Trump is how profoundly the country disagrees about the answer.

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.

For those who believe this is all for the better, Trump’s victory represents a long-overdue rebuke to an entrenched and arrogant governing class; for those who see it as for the worse, the destruction extends to cherished norms of civility and discourse, a politics poisoned by vile streams of racism, sexism, nativism. To his believers, he delivers change—broad, deep, historic change, not modest measures doled out in Dixie cups; to his detractors, he inspires fear both for what he may do and what may be done in his name.

COMMENT:  Well, I guess that's kind of fair, although I wish one mainstream journalist would have the guts to call the cries of "racism" what they are, grossly false.  I have not seen any racism coming from the mouth of Donald Trump.  There may have been some poorly phrased comments early in his campaign, but certainly no racism.  The way he runs his companies prove the charge to be a fraud.

I was not enthusiastic about Trump, as readers know.  But I must say that I've been impressed by the way he's managed his transition.  He comes off as thoughtful, contemplative, willing to listen to others.  Perhaps most important, he's learned to speak over the heads of the media, as Reagan did.  I look forward to his inauguration.

December 7,  2016