The worry of being“too much” is exactly what loses elections. Of anything can be learned from the right it’s to LEAN IN - to win a voter is to offer something to vote for
"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are