At Davos, all eyes are on America’s presidential election

The conversations swirling around the chilly mountain air of Davos, Switzerland, keep returning to one issue. “2024 is the year of 50 or so elections around the world,” Carl Bildt, a former prime minister of Sweden, told me. “But there is only one election we are all talking about: the one in America.”

When abroad, Americans can often be parochially attentive to their own politics, boring their foreign counterparts with long discussions of party politics in the Senate or the prospects of a new governor. But this time, I find it’s the Americans who are weary of their country’s political drama while foreigners are panicking about what might happen in November.