New Republic:
If Rise Above was any indication, the time has come to frighten and shame Democrats into devoting more energy and resources to down-ticket races. The party must rebuild itself from the ground up, providing a path for new young talent. But it must also focus on the local level for more immediate reasons: to stop emboldened Republicans in the Trump era.
“[W]e’re three statehouses away from them being able to pass constitutional amendments, and that should terrify us as attorneys—terrify us,” Courtney Madden of the New Leaders Council told the conference crowd.