We do not need to be the next Norway, but we should have much better healthcare, education and intolerance of greed. I think that his fresh ideas will really bring this to fruition.
And, isn't that what our current "Hope and Change" was supposed to bring? Just what we need... another 4/8 years of ineffectual leadership that changes nothing because this will cause nothing but gridlock.
And I think that is good and I wish him well.
But for myself, as someone who would call himself a kind of Marxian socialist, I wish he'd stop calling himself a socialist. He is doing both himself (at best a Euro-style social democrat) and socialism a disservice.
I prefer the term "opening the Overton window". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window)