To understand how we came up with this week’s cover you need to travel back to that far-off land where Donald Trump had not yet won the presidency and the election was still balanced on a knife-edge. We did not know who would win. We did not even know if we’d know who would win. The only thing we were certain of was that, if we waited until we had the information, our deadline might not give us enough time to come up with a decent design.