Not to be unkind, but "young people" tend to admire those who stir things up. Unfortunately, this applies even when the "stirrer" is a vacuous twit with nothing cogent to say.
In a few short months, Cortez has shown herself to be incredibly shallow, ignorant about history and law, self absorbed, and to use a hackneyed expression, "much too big for her britches." She is this "generation's" Occupy Movement: a lot of smoke but no fire.
She is the Flavor of the Week, and in a very short period of time, her "followers" will shift to the Flavor of Next Week, as they realize that she is a big pile of nothing.
We on the Right wish her the best, as the more she is quoted in the Media, the more ridiculous she - and her posse - appears.