Democrats need a local and national vision and message

For Democrats who feel that running on only local issues is the key to victory in the midterms, it may be for the short term. Long term, it presents a losing proposition because when Congress gathers with increased, perhaps majority level numbers, they will be pulling against each other because the candidates ran on local and regional issues tailored to demographic marketing. That will tear the party apart as it did in the Clinton and Obama eras where twice we lost largely Democratic members in suburban, southern, and Sunbelt districts because the party lacked the foresight to forge, embrace, and run on a cohesive national message (even when they had issues to run on like resurgent economies, greater health care, large investments in education and green energy.) Democrats and Progressives need to learn their lesson from history and come together after all the primaries are over and, like the Republicans did with their Contract with America in 1994, fashion a national message that will find support among progressives and centrists as well as all regions around the country. That is one of the keys to building a solid united party that will last longer than two years into the next Democratic Administration

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/democrats-message-trump/567541/