I’ll tell you something very strange: I can’t get worked up about the 2016 election (yet). I will, I’m sure, as we reach the homestretch, or well before. My partisan juices will start to boil. They never cool, actually. They just sometimes simmer.

Anyway, let me explain.

I thought the 2012 election mattered a lot. I thought it was a hinge election. I thought it was a future-determiner — and that a second term for Obama would leave a terrible mark.

Unlike many on the right, I thought that Mitt Romney was a superb candidate, and that the ticket of Romney and Paul Ryan was one of the most appealing imaginable. The contrast with Obama and Biden was stark.

And the people chose Obama and Biden. Again. Over Romney and Ryan. What can you do with such a people? How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Obama has been able to do a lot of damage in his second term — in the domestic and foreign realms — and, as he keeps reminding us, he’s not through yet. He has a lot of damage left to do before he departs the White House on 1/20/17. Clinton worked right up till noon, commuting the sentences of Weather Underground terrorists and whatnot. Obama will be no less industrious.

He said he wanted to transform the nation fundamentally. And he has been a roaring success. The people, with their votes, have let him do it. Have asked for it, really.

So, 2016? I mean, I don’t want Hillary Clinton to win, don’t get me wrong. But part of me says one big fat meh.

It is July 2015, and I’m sure my present ennui — which is only a relative ennui — will pass well before July 2016, when I will be in my usual mode of partisan high boil. But the 2012 election took some of the wind out of my sails, America-wise, and I wonder whether other people know what I mean.