“She’s designed to get the right riled up while the Left does its job behind the scenes.”
You are 100% correct. She is a publicity hound. If she gets no reaction she has no value. The right should totally ignore her. If her remarks have no effect, her friends on the left will ultimately discard her. Politicians are egomaniacs and her unbridled ambition combined with lack of experience and knowledge will cause the older Democrats to clip her wings.
I'm adding the coiner of the phrase Cheese In the Maze which is the diversionary Tweet strategy that Trump used so effectively in 2017 (less so in 2018). I don't believe Cortez the Killer is as sharp as Trump, but I do believe some Dem operative read LS' article and may be using the freshman congresswoman from Queens to try out that strategy on Deplorables.
I'll say it again: I would caution against taking Ms Ocasio-Cortez too lightly. Back in 2004 some lightweight former community organizer spoke at the DNC convention. Many scoffed at the though of this loser becoming anything more than a state senator. In mid-2015, many people thought Trump's candidacy was a joke...Jeb! was a shoe-in.
Now, I'm not arguing that she's a powerhouse orator or that she will easily topple the Dem Establishment.
But remember that Trump won by about 78k votes, i.e. the margin of victory collectively in MI, WI, and PA. And many Dems won by questionably small margins in 2018. Finally, the DNC has the media and Antifa working for them. It may not require a tsunami of public support for this freshman to become a horror for Normal People, and to be juuuuuust enough to tip the scales toward a Kamala Harris/Spartacus ticket.
Red-pill centrist friends, and build a WALL of MAGA-loving voters that overwhelms Dem fraud. And let Ocasio-Cortez tweet and do not give her air time.