Why would you want Bernie Sanders to be at the forefront of Monero? Bernie isn't at all the poster child for this, because it would be against the Feds and private banks, which I would believe, that he is good with... Plus he's socialist, I thought the majority of XMR folks here were libertarians... spying and analysing your data is going to be his specialty.
Beat me to it. I was also going to say while Paul is sympathetic to Bitcoin, and would likely approve of Monero even more, Sanders would hate both as they would fundamentally attack his entire worldview.
Thing is they fundamentally attack the worldview of almost ALL politicians except for kooks (sic) like Paul.
It's actually an interesting point from a speculation vantage. One that comes up a lot... but is worth continuing to consider. Governments do not like Bitcoin. And they will HATE Monero.