I mean, to me at least, it just speaks to the meme-level understanding of Trotsky's ideas/Trotskyism that's common among people who radicalized on the internet and think, for whatever reason, that defining themselves as against trots makes them more radical or Marxist or whatever.

Like I can lay out a Marxist analysis of fascism for example, and folks seem to appreciate it, but when you lay out the same analysis and say I borrowed a lot of this from Trotsky, you inevitably get the "begone trot" knee-jerk reactions.

Or just reading through the criticism in this thread, it's fairly obvious that folks understand the theory of permanent revolution on the level of literally just the plain meaning of the name of the theory.

Like, I have a feeling that not a lot of people here would vehemently disagree if I said "the bourgeoisie in the nations dominated by imperialism are so coopted by foreign capital that they are functionally incapable of leading struggles for democratic rights," but that is a key point of P.Rev. and historically a point of disagreement with the Stalinists.