Three unmistakable signals right out of the box

That is, in addition to the one that's the subject of the post immediately below.

There's AOC telling Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that she wants to see the highest income bracket taxed at 70 percent - and the money used to fund her Green New Deal.

There's this stunt by openly bisexual Senator Krysten Sinema. And, by the way, don't you have to be promiscuous to know if you'er bisexual?

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) took her ceremonial oath of office holding her hand on a copy of the Constitution rather than a religious text such as the Bible.

Vice President Pence can be seen in video of the moment ending Sinema's oath by saying the standard words, "so help you God?," to which Sinema responded, "I do." He then says that he looks forward to working with her in Congress. 

And then there's this from one of the Jew-haters in the freshman class:

 A liberal congresswoman who boasted in a foul-mouthed itrade that the new Democratic House leadership will impeach 'motherf***er' Donald Trump doubled down Friday morning on Twitter, refusing to apologize .

'I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyMe,' Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib tweeted a day after taking her seat in Congress.

'This is not just about Donald Trump,' she claimed. 'This is about all of us. In the face of this constitutional crisis, we must rise.' She didn't specify what constitutional crisis she was reacting to. 

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin Mccathy blasted her on Friday, and slapped at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not publicly disavowing the slur.

There was a time when there was room in the Democrat party for the likes of Scoop Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Yes, it was the repository for left-of-center America's political intentions, but still set store in its less inflamed quarters by rigor of thought and basic decency. That was all over by the 1980s, with the rise of - well, for instance, Nancy Pelosi.

The leftward lurch over the past 40 years has begged the question of how far it could go. Well, folks, at least this far. And they bring a fierce - indeed, vicious - determination the likes of Ron Dellums could only have dreamed about.

There is some solace in the reality check these freedom-, dignity-, decency- and God-haters will be encountering soon enough:

. . . for all the talk of Alison Spanberger and the "Badass Caucus," of how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib "aren't going to take no for an answer," of grand plans for a Green New Deal and Medicare for All, there remains the inescapable reality of power. Democrats don't really have it. Indeed, they have even less than the last time Pelosi became speaker.

Yes, they can fire their subpoena cannon at the White House. They can interrogate cabinet officials, subpoena Jared and Ivanka, leak scoops to reporters, maybe force a cabinet official or two to resign, if any are left. When Mueller delivers his findings, they could begin impeachment proceedings. But impeachment, like progressive legislation, won't get far. A decade ago the House could pass bills and hope that Harry Reid would persuade his Democratic Senate majority to support them. All Pelosi had to worry about was President Bush's veto. Now, Pelosi has to deal with Mitch McConnell's Republican Senate even before her policies reach Donald Trump.

But the bar has now been lowered. You can be a foul-mouthed, spiritually grotesque radical and get elected to Congress. These people have a legitimacy conferred upon their pronouncements significantly beyond what they had six months ago. When they speak to gatherings of the nation's youth, they do so not just as representatives of activist groups but as elected officials.

And to top it all off, the Very Stable Genius is going to run his mouth and take to Twitter and suck much-needed oxygen away from actual conservative arguments against this debacle.

It's now even later in the day.