[Verginius Rufus]

I don't think they would choose someone who is dead, and GHWB didn't do anything newsworthy during the year other than to die.

Either Mueller or some potential 2020 candidate like Beto or Kamala, or maybe the #MeToo movement (if they haven't already had them).

[a fool in paradise]

I could see them giving it to Karl Marx in 2021 if more leftists win in 2020.