"Sanders Democrats"

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Sanders isn't running on a socialist platform or even making his campaign about socialism, so I don't see why anyone thinks that a self-described democratic socialist (and believe me, he's far from actually being one, given that he's not running on socializing even the commanding heights of the economy) running in the Democratic Party primary is automatically going to create space for a socialist wing of the party to emerge. The fact of the matter is that Sanders is running the usual left-liberal populist campaign, and his donors and supporters back that up. He'll get the backing of the AFL-CIO against NAFTA's First Lady and will probably attract some level of support from left-liberal interest groups, but at the end of the day, that's as far as his candidacy goes.

He's a warm up act for Clinton. The only 'legacy' he'll leave is yet another failed left-liberal attempt at capturing the Democratic Party, continuing in the footsteps of Estes Kefauver, Wayne Morse, Eugene McCarthy, Frank Church, Jesse Jackson, etc.

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I don't know if it is, but his support base is clearly among those who want to 'take back' the Democratic Party from the Clintonistas. This is a silly and unachievable goal, as the Democratic Party has never been the party of the left-liberals and the labor movement, which have been the battered spouse of the party since they entered into an unholy alliance with finance capital in the 1930s and 1940s in opposition to the dominant Republican Party.

Really, the idea that the Democratic Party can be won over at all to left-liberal positions is what is entirely laughable, given the only time it did succeed to some extent (1972), the party quickly collapsed, losing most of its major donors and political support while also being painted as out of touch and unhinged by the media. You should expect the exact same to happen if Sanders or another left-liberal captures the nomination of the Democratic Party in the future.