All Sizzle but No Steak

Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 12:34 p.m.

In all the noise surrounding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, much of the attention centered on her has been hostile or leering, racist or white-knighty or paparazzish\u2014and predictably focused on her looks. While the left certainly isn\u2019t exempt, the response from the right has been notable not just for its frenzied ubiquity, but for the gendered stink of the efforts to undermine her.