Yeah, I haven't read all of them, just like The Keep through Nightworld. Never noticed the politics I just stopped with repairman jack when it started to just add bloat to an already finished storyline. Still love the cycle though.
I went from the Repairman Jack books into the Cycle, so the whole end of the world stuff was all new to me. Some of the repairman jack books are pretty good, it just got to the point where way too much was happening within a year and a half time span and it was adding way too much to the whole Glaeken/Rasalom thing that made it seem less and less like "two gods that don't really care about the world" and more like two people really really quibbling over this cingle city and events involving this one person.
The politics aren't so out of the realm of the type of character it is, it just starts getting more and more re-contextualized once you're more aware of it. He's basically Batman with guns that actually kills people. Or if Batman tracked down Joe Chill and glued a gun to his hand and made him run at the police until he was shot basically. Only he doesn't brued in caves, he hangs out in his decked out 80s decorated apartment with his gold bricks hidden in the floor.
I could unpack Repairman Jack for days.