Ocasio-Cortez' win is the victory a disillusioned world needed #WriteBravely

Last year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was making cocktails behind the counter of the Flats Fix tacos and tequila bar. The college educational director was forced to take up this second job after the recession hit her family badly and they faced foreclosure. After her father had passed away, she and her Puerto Rican mother (who cleaned houses and drove buses) were struggling to make ends meet.

She was the poster girl for the struggling middle class American. In 2017, disillusioned by what the Dem...