> a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) consists of one United States Senator and seventy five members of the United States House of Representatives, and is the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus
The website of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America until 1999 - http://www.wnd.com/2002/11/15866/
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States - http://twincitiesdsa.blogspot.com/ - http://www.dsausa.org/our_structure
** So there you have it - The largest Democrat caucus in the House of Representatives are communists **
Congressional Progressive Caucus members - http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71
Co-Chairs
Raúl Grijalva
Keith Ellison
First Vice Chair
Mark Pocan
Vice Chairs
Matt Cartwright
David Cicilline
Ruben Gallego
Michael Honda
Sheila Jackson Lee
Jan Schakowsky
Mark Takano
Whip
Barbara Lee
Senate Member
Bernie Sanders
House Members
Alma Adams
Karen Bass
Xavier Becerra
Don Beyer
Suzanne Bonamici
Corrine Brown
Michael Capuano
Andre Carson
Judy Chu
Katherine Clark
Yvette Clarke
Steve Cohen
Bonnie Watson Coleman
John Conyers
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Peter DeFazio
Rosa DeLauro
Debbie Dingell
Donna Edwards
Sam Farr
Chaka Fattah
Lois Frankel
Marcia Fudge
Alan Grayson
Luis Gutierrez
Janice Hahn
Jared Huffman
Hakeem Jeffries
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Hank Johnson
Joe Kennedy III
Wm. Lacy Clay
Brenda Lawrence
John Lewis
Ted Lieu
David Loebsack
Alan Lowenthal
Carolyn Maloney
Jim McDermott
James McGovern
Gwen Moore
Jerrold Nadler
Grace Napolitano
Rick Nolan
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Frank Pallone
Chellie Pingree
Jared Polis
Charles Rangel
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Jose Serrano
Louise Slaughter
Mark Takai
Bennie Thompson
Nydia Velazquez
Maxine Waters
Peter Welch
Frederica Wilson
John Yarmuth
The Congressional Progressive Caucus webpage on the DSA website from 1998.
https://web.archive.org/web/19980626082710/http://www.dsausa.org/pc/pc.members.html
Your list of Congressional progressives includes an extraordinarily high percentage of real losers and nitwits. Is there a coincidence?