George Packer is bored with American politics. “The 2016 campaign doesn’t seem like fun to me,” he writes in The New Yorker. Today’s politics “doesn’t quicken my pulse.” It “doesn’t shock me into a state of alert indignation.” The “thrill is gone.”When George Packer gets bored, I get worried. It means he’s in the mood for war.Packer claims he lost his passion for politics sometime between Obama's first and second term.