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Like others, I don't get this strategically or substantively from Bernie. The most obvious explanation not hugely flattering, which is that he seems to believe in a Green Latern presidency in which his election would signal a Revolution(!) in which Everything Was Different.
The odds are that if Sanders wins—entirely possible!—he does it by slogging out a relatively narrow Electoral College victory over an unpopular incumbent president, winning *most* of the same voters that any other Dem would. There are other scenarios, but that's the base case.
Obama and Trump were also—in some ways—revolutionary. But both were highly constrained by checks-and-balances, and (immediately for Trump, later on for Obama) their unpopularity. What could have changed things? Obama would have been much less constrained without the filibuster.
