“Kanye West’s announcement of his intention to seek the Presidency reminds us that it’s not too early to start thinking about the 2020 campaign. (2016’s already old hat by now, anyway),” Barry Blitt says about “2020 Vision,” his cover for next week’s issue. “And when one considers Mr. West, it doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to be reminded of another scrappy kid who won the Presidency, back in 1948, against all odds. The press wrote him off, too. That’s right—Harry Truman.” Here is the historic photo that inspired Blitt’s image of the future.
Mina Kaneko is a former member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
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By Mina Kaneko and Françoise Mouly
The Political Scene
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As the general election is set to begin, there is a new protagonist in American politics: not the man seeking to take back the White House as retribution but its current, outwardly placid occupant.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells