Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News, February 2, 2020

“How to best describe the state of our politics heading into the 2020 election? We could focus on the energized extremes, the heated division, impeachment, Twitter and the prime-time splash. How the very mention of President Donald Trump or take-your-pick of the Democrat candidates risks unleashing a diatribe instead of anything resembling a conversation.

But what if instead we talked about what’s missing? All that’s quiet, overlooked, not flashing across the headlines. What if we focused on the vast majority of people who increasingly find themselves unrepresented and exhausted, wishing our political adolescence would grow up to political adulting, and discouraged that it’s unlikely.

What if we focused on the big problems that are not being solved (or even discussed) because they require compromises, reforms that take longer than a soundbite to explain, and broad and durable coalitions to rally behind solutions.”