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She worked for Bernie's campaign and did the sh1t jobs you'd expect a junior person just starting out to do. Then she was specifically recruited to run as a part of the effort to find young progressives who could appeal to other Millennials.
A lumpy, bald older dude wouldn't.
Why not? A lumpy bald dude who worked for Bernie's campaign and did the sh!t jobs a junior person just starting out would do could also recruited to run as part of the candidate recruiting team, and also been enormously successful. If that person was charismatic and engaging and had mastered social media and organization and showed an aptitude for crowdfunding campaign contributions.
Again, Fetterman is instructive. He ran in the progressive lane in the PA primary against the conventional mainstream Conor Lamb. He was the darling of the left wing, despite being the lumpy bald older dude.
I'm really not sure what you're trying to get at here. AOC won her race because she's incredibly good at the politics one needs to do to appeal to the progressive base. She has the right issues, the right skill sets, a great deal of personal charisma, good interpersonal skills, solid management capabilities, an aptitude for social media, and an ability to navigate the intersection between the far left and the center left in a way that kept her from being marginalized from leadership. There's absolutely no reason a bald lumpy guy that had all those political gifts and talents wouldn't have done very well also.
