If Sanders gets his agenda through, what causes will Progressive champion?

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If the unlikely happens, and Bernie Sanders is able to get through Congress Single Payer Health Care, Tuition Free College, $15 Minimum Wage, etc. what will Progressives/Leftists rally around? What new causes or laws will they want implemented?

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I wonder if lower education would be at priority? Perhaps moving the US over to a more Scandinavian style education system, scrapping no child left behind?

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The scenario is fantastical, but this actually is an interesting question.  In most countries that went substantially social democratic in the early-mid 20th century, once the universal health care/college education/childcare became an accepted part of the status quo, the right (though center-left by American standards) went on to win way more than half of the elections for a long time afterward.  Or there has been a long period of Ike/Monroe style status quo grand coalitions.  So it looks like where the top 5-10 holy grail new entitlements/political reforms have actually happened, there's nothing else around to motivate the left for a long while.

Nothing at all? Interesting. Though I would think leftist parties who implemented significant reforms would stay in power for a few more terms given how popular they would/have been.

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I can confirm that the left in the UK have no aims or goals after we got healthcare through. We just sit around and confirm how great we are to each other.
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Well, there is Corbyn and the National Education Service, an interesting idea which could be incorporated here.

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The rise and fall of the agricultural left in America is a good parallel for this.  For 40 years from Bryan's first run to FDR's 2nd term, most American farm families were raging left-populists.  Then they essentially won all of the battles, from permanent farm subsidies and quotas to prevent overproduction driving down prices to effective slaughterhouse regulations to the demise of Southern sharecropping.  Then Ike came along and accepted the new order of things, and agricultural interests have been a bastion of the establishment right ever since.

Interesting. Though I'm sure the Democrats couldn't be out of power for too long, especially with a conservative GOP. There would have to be an Eisenhower type figure who's main message wouldn't be to repeal every progressive bill that was passed.