Finally got round to watching "Knock Down the House" (Netflix), about various Democrat candidates in the run up to their primaries last year.
Obviously, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is the star, for many reasons, but not least (spoilers) because she actually surprisingly won. I suspect the editing would have been very different if the other women they followed had won too. AOC is very impressive, definitively human. I do hope she doesnt become consumed by the Dem Machine she was trying to break. Joe Crowley seemed like the archetypal establishment candidate, in place for 20 years, with the whole apparatus of the party behind him & the sense of owning his safe seat, despite being an absentee representative.
However, it was the stories of the other women that were more affecting; genuine anger from Paula Jean Swearengin tired of the abuses of "big coal" in West Virginia, the grief of Amy Vilela from Nevada & the disappointment of Cori Bush from Missouri as she failed to make significant change in the aftermath of the Ferguson issues.