but as far as I am able to judge, they will have to keep
it up. They also need to put a very large effort into
each state, where laws and police behavior are at the
root of a lot of their reasons.

The candidates can say anything, but most complaints
and grievances come actually about policy and action
from the individual states.

if a certain Senator from Vermont wasn't in the race?

New York and California doing it made it a national issue.

The minimum wage campaign began long before Sanders ran for president.

It was an actual movement.

Yes, many of us have been talking about a livable minimum wage for YEARS, and normally the conventional wisdom poobahs would sneer and dismiss it, much the way they still laugh off the silly radicals who argue that the government should have better shit to do with our tax dollars than filling prisons with millions of pot smokers.

putting pot smokers in prison.

Yay.

Bernie never did nor would he since he's been outspoken about the inequalities of the criminal justice system for decades.

Is that what you meant?

he now recognizes what a sexist is (ie: anyone that criticizes Hillary.)

without winning the white vote(and he lost white women also).

even when they do address crime it will be different from the usual way in which it's more about making white people feel better.

the dem party base being black/hispanic .

blm was very effective in using these changes for the better and in a way which will actually be influential .

Stuff that seemed fringe 4 years ago is mainstream conventional wisdom now.