“what if Cortes wins this war over the Pelosi faction?”
I won’t make a prediction but it would not surprise me if Cortes does win. The old white establishment of the Demonrat party will do whatever it takes to prevent that. What I think the Demonrats strategy might be is to convince her to run for a higher office that she has no chance of winning, maybe against Schummer, then when she loses that primary they are rid of her and have the ability to claim they really aren’t ignorant, race baiting racist who swim in their antisemitism. Otherwise they’ll have an operative claiming to be a Trump supporter gun her down.
She already lost. Cortez is voting for pehosi.