As the underdog upstart of the 2018 midterms, everything Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does seems up for debate.
Does she have too much money? Eagle-eyed reporters snap photographs of her jacket as evidence that she’s faking her socialist credentials. Or does she have too little? The 29-year-old dares to have less than a year’s salary in savings, sending financial experts into a tizzy. Ocasio-Cortez livestreams dinner recipes on her Instagram Story and is hailed as a social media revolutionary. But wait — is she on Instagram too often? Opinions differ. Fox News even convened a panel to discuss whether her shoes should be in a museum — at which point the congresswoman-elect rightfully described them as “obsessed.