One thing that does distinguish Trots from other Leninist branch tendencies is that they are outspokenly and emphatically internationalist and interventionist even when it's not feasible to engage in such adventurism. So when leftists who were quite radical in their youth get cynical and eventually sell out to join the establishment, they nevertheless retain this conviction of evangelizing, internationalist interventionism, except now under a ruthless liberal paradigm. This is essentially the seedbed of the neoconservative project in America, which after the Reagan Revolution corrupted the Democrats after their Clintonite turn and simultaneously bled over to the UK with the Blairite turn of the Labour Party.
Why is this so prevalent??
One thing that does distinguish Trots from other Leninist branch tendencies is that they are outspokenly and emphatically internationalist and interventionist even when it's not feasible to engage in such adventurism. So when leftists who were quite radical in their youth get cynical and eventually sell out to join the establishment, they nevertheless retain this conviction of evangelizing, internationalist interventionism, except now under a ruthless liberal paradigm. This is essentially the seedbed of the neoconservative project in America, which after the Reagan Revolution corrupted the Democrats after their Clintonite turn and simultaneously bled over to the UK with the Blairite turn of the Labour Party.
Trots too ideologically incoherent especially in west
Opportunists are easily bought