Say what you want: Sanders has been working hard since 2015 to get his ideas out front.

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16. Impressive how hard he works for his ideas...But

And that he works for them even at the expense of his electability. I think those ideas have had a potent effect on other candidates, on the electorate, and the terms of the debate on economic and social justice overall. But somehow his idea-driven approach puts me off. Maybe it’s the his ideas part. He comes across to some of us as more ideologue than public servant, more leader of ideas than this country and its people. In theory I like some of Bernie’s ideas, but am leery of their pragmatic application. I also find him more attached to this getting out his ideas than to responding to the multiple urgent domestic and global issues that confront us. His ideas don’t suggest a roadmap to confront these, except to say that if we root out the worst evils of capitalist corruption, focus on his ideas, they solve themselves.
He’s an idea factory for ideas rooted in a strongly felt and experienced progressive ideology. Nothing in that is bad or should be dismissed.
But the president of the United States wears many hats: domestic and foreign policy maker and negotiator, upholder of democratic values that bind us as a nation together and make common cause with our allies, commander-in-chief, chief of party, chief executive—over the FBI, CIA, national security agencies.
Sanders shows unflagging enthusiasm and industry on behalf of a relatively narrow set of ideas and policies. I look for him to address his ability to carry out the fuller panoply of responsibilities he will have as executive in chief, and what policies or ideas intersect with that role.