In a very recent article the very learned journalist, Douglas Murray, enquired (almost rhetorically) why there were people today who called themselves Trotskyists. 

I have heard people in my own adult life, born in my own lifetime, and sometimes younger than myself (people in their twenties or thirties), seriously describe themselves as being (or at some point having been) a Trotskyist.

Perhaps he had forgotten that Tony Blair — New Labor, British Prime Minister, Europhile and very fanatic Remainer – was caught admitting that he had once, in his younger days, been a Trotskyite. 

Revealing as that is for those who try to understand Blair’s obsession...