# https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-staggers/2024/08/in-defence-of-the-american-politics-obsessive  ## Metadata - Author: [[newstatesman.com]] - Full Title: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-staggers/2024/08/in-defence-of-the-american-politics-obsessive - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/the-staggers/2024/08/in-defence-of-the-american-politics-obsessive - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > For a long time there was another way in which I thought *The West Wing* had ruined us: that it made a very particular kind of Extremely Online Politics Man somehow even worse. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j4cab1ak6xsty9nnb4y6ak1t)) > The US after all, remains the largest most powerful country in the world, the keystone of the global economy, the biggest player in NATO by an overwhelming margin and the guarantor of European security. We might wish it were otherwise, but wishing will not make it so. It will thus matter to all of us who wins this November’s presidential election; and obscure bits of polling out of Pennsylvania, or the fact Nebraska does something esoteric when distributing its electoral college votes, could genuinely matter to that result. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j4catjpyxpdv6qay9771dacn))