He is a committed ideologue with decades in far left politics.
She is a profoundly ignorant bar girl or whatever, she can’t share his total devotion to marxism (yet!) because she simply doesn’t have the knowledge of it in her brain.
Her primary win was VERY low turnout. I maintain she won because of her last name, which no one talks about but is reason enough for Hispanics to vote. She also won the votes of “woke” yuppies who were the ONLY people who followed the primary at all. Blacks, and the diminishing number of blue collar Whites, stuck with Crowley.
I guarantee you most the people that voted for her (Hispanics) had not heard of her before walking into the polling place.
Look at Chicago where Irish candidates for Judge consistently do better. When you have no knowledge of the candidates it can be a factor in choosing.
I had read that Crowley actually carried most majority-Hispanic precincts over AOC, with AOC cleaning up in hipster white Anglo precincts, but if she did 20% better among Hispanics than she would have had her last names been O’Casey-Curtis then clearly her Spanish surnames wee a sine qua non for he primary victory.