They picked her precisely because she comes off as goofy and harmless, and likeable in a clownish way.  The amount of exposure this woman gets is outrageous by any logical standard. http://archive.is/9ZR1e  She had 15,897 votes out of 27,658 votes, 98% reporting (440 of 449 precincts). She's treated like she's someone running for president in as far as media fawning over her, and even media coverage poking fun at her outrageous ideas.  Clearly she's a manufactured candidate, but consider that in a nation that's a Representative Republic, that she's such an important face in the Democrat party. In real life however, less then 16,000 votes.  They present communism as light and fluffy, and open borders as 'compassionate' and the slaughterhouse abortion baby parts industry as 'nurturing'. Hard to fathom much more insidious a trojan horsey than AOC.