Helaine Olen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not your manic pixie dream girl

(Paul Sancya | The Associated Press) In this Saturday, July 28, 2018, file photo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congressional candidate from New York, speaks during a campaign stop for Michigan for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, right, in Detroit. Ocasio-Cortez is trying to leverage the 17,000 votes that gave her a primary win in New York into a national movement.

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