Belying his campaign’s insistence that he will overtake Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates when California votes in June, Bernie Sanders recently laid out conditions for which he would endorse the front runner, Hillary Clinton.

“If I can’t make it — and we’re going to try as hard as we can until the last vote is cast — we want to completely revitalize the Democratic Party and make it a party of the people rather than one of large campaign contributors,” Sanders said in an interview on the progressive Web show “The Young Turks.”

Sanders also listed policy demands he would make of Clinton, including a single-payer health care system, a $15 an hour minimum wage, tougher regulation of the finance industry, closing corporate tax loopholes and “a vigorous effort to address climate change.”

Unfortunately for Sen Sanders, it doesn’t usually work this way. As far as I can recall, Sec Clinton didn’t make any (public) endorsement demands of then Sen Obama in 2008. And quite frankly, I can’t imagine that then-Sen. Obama would have made any offers to then-Sen. Clinton or to any of his then-rivals in order to secure their endorsement. Further, by actually listing things he would want to make an endorsement he is implicitly acknowledging that he will almost certainly not be the nominee.

Sen. Sanders will get a nice speaking slot at the convention and a lot of his platform will be incorporated into the DNC platform. He’s also inspired many people and his ideas (if not his specific plans) will gain more momentum in the future. But to make demands for endorsing the likely winner of a primary is unseemly.