Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a leading voice of the party's left wing, said in a phone interview that the next few weeks would set the tone for how the incoming administration will be received by liberal activists, reports The New York Times.

"I think that's what people are keeping an eye out for: Is this administration going to be actively hostile and try to put in appointments that are going to just squash progressives and organizing?" AOC said. "I don't envy the Biden team. It's a very delicate balance. But I think it's really important to strike a good one. Because it sends a very, very powerful message on the intention to govern."

She has singled out Obama's former chief-of-staff as a problem for the radicals.

"Someone like Rahm Emanuel would be a pretty divisive pick," she told The Times, citing his record as mayor on racial justice and his opposition to teachers' unions. "And it would signal, I think, a hostile approach to the grass-roots and the progressive wing of the party."

Biden is going to be pressured from both sides, the centrist leftists and the radical leftists. The centrists understand that Democrats lost House seats because of the prominence of the radical leftist agenda.

The radicals don't care.

The centrists are more crony and this is Biden's natural turf (though the radicals are funded by unions and Soros organizations), so it is going to be interesting how Biden and his handlers move. 

The best hope for freedom lovers is that Biden goes with the crony centrists which starts an internal war within the Democratic party. It is not clear to me that the radicals have a strong enough presence in the House to create a significant radical caucus but the grassroots Bernie bros could be a serious problem for Democrats if AOC sends out the word to attack.