That's just it, Trotsky is like the face of Useful Idiocy in the west. Every faux-progressive latches on to him as a hero and a martyr because he opposed the Stalinist Regime. I don't talk about Trotsky and other third campists when no one brings them up, it's a waste of breath, but when someone does bring them up the idea that they were good Marxists needs to be killed with a pickaxe to the skull.