This conflicts with the general wisdom that the larger the turnout, the better the results for the Democrats are. In placing emphasis in minority communities most likely to be negatively affected by Trump, Republican, and Third Way policies, we can totally get a majority. Worth noting that The Atlantic is one of the most traditionalist faux-liberal magazines we've got so this article is just what they want to hear.
Hell, if Clinton had just campaigned in Wisconsin in 2016, we would have won.
That wisdom was based on an assumption that because minorities tend to turn out a thing lower rates and also tend to vote Dem, that turnout increases disproportionately help Dems. Which was true for a long time, until Trump blew it up in 2016 by turning out a big cohort of white non-voters, while non-white voting sagged without Obama on the ticket.
But generally, non-voters, white or not, right or left, are more socially conservative than average, generally alienated in a way that makes them skeptical of any sort of "establishment" or anything that looks too much like business as usual, but also open to anyone promising them direct material benefit, i.e., leftism. That's why Trump was able to woo them with the combination of intense bigotry, brusque anti-establishment rhetoric, and attacking other Republicans from the left on social security and healthcare (though clearly sitting here three years later he was bullshitting about that last part).
And Bernie is genuinely well situated to play well with those dynamics. He obviously fully supports the Democratic line on social issues, but rarely centers that stuff in a way that will make socially conservative non-voters feel attacked, promises lots of direct benefits to you, and attacks all the people and establishments you don't like, with the sort of aggressive tone that reassures you he's not just part of the establishment scheme here to trick you.
The question is how much can he juice their turnout by, is it going to be enough to outweigh any affect he may have in demobilizing the sort of wealthy white suburbanites who hate Trump, won some major victories for Dems in 2018, but are skeptical of any notion of revolution and generally value the sort of mild-mannered establishmentarianism that Bernie rails against, can he pivot to do more to appeal to those people without alienating those non-voters, and how will these non-voters, who aren't ideological, who won't see Bernie and Trump as polar opposites, deal with some of the cross-pressures of kind of seeing the appeal of both.
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