In a democracy or a democratic republic, people get the representatives they deserve.
If you are too lazy and/or uninformed to get out and vote for a decent representative, you are also unworthy of being considered to be a mature citizen.
"bread & circuses" should keep you somnolent and satisfied.
BUT my point is while conservatives are laughing at Cortez and ridiculing her, she's going to Congress. Any one of us is smart, intelligent, and loquacious enough to build a ground game to dislodge our local RINO/NeverTrump congresscritter..OR...primary and dislodge the Dems as a libertarian and ride the Trump train to DC.
Now, most of us aren't able to launch a campaign. Fair enough. But at LEAST we need to convert a tsunami of centrist friends and family to MAGA. THAT needs to be our focus. She can be ridiculed to serve as red pill fertilizer, but anything beyond that feeds her role as an intentional distraction...a Siren.