With all respect, it appears that people are missing the point...
The Person of the Year issue of Time magazine features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "
for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year"
If you look at the list of winners, it's not exactly an exclusive list of Good Samaritans - not when it has Hitler, Stalin (twice), Andropov, Nixon (twice), King Faisal, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Deng Xiaoping (twice) and Vladimir Putin on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year#Persons_of_the_YearWas the person who picked Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (leader of ISIS) for last years's shortlist an uber-clunge? Al-Baghdadi finished in 2nd place behind Angela Merkel.
Right, that's the PSA done, now back to the auto-patellar (sic) reflexive Two Minute Hating...