THE RISE OF AOC: Attention!

How the youngest woman in Congress learned to leverage sudden, explosive visibility — and what she taught the Democratic Party

This is part three of my in-depth portrait of the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Find the first installment, and the series introduction, here. Find the second installment here.) Today’s chapter is about how Ocasio-Cortez was swept, as abruptly as anyone ever to live, into fame. And how she learned to think of it as a tool for “seizing and holding a…