The Presidential Soft-Launch Has Begun

As someone who swallowed the “girlboss feminism” propaganda of the last decade whole, my lingering instinct watching Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in the news these past two weeks has been: Good for her!

AOC has frozen her eggs, on livestream at that. Reports emerged that quietly ended her years-long engagement to her longtime fiancé Riley Roberts. And, perhaps most surprisingly, one of the most recognizable faces of contemporary progressivism has begun laughing about the excesses of the very political culture that helped make her famous: “Woke 1.0 was crazy.”