confused connotations. Trotsky wouldn't have been as familiar with the American form of racial segregation, for one, and whether or not he came up with the term "racist", he definitely didn't invent the modern understanding of racism.

‘Raciste’ and ‘racisme’ crop up regularly in the works of late-19th and early-20th century French agitators, and Trotsky's use was in a treatise titled "What In National Socialism"...about the Nazis. Nazis are conceivably "dissenters of communist ideology", but they weren't exactly "noncomformists"

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm

Within the modern context, however, I don't think a confused alt-right history will be an effective re-branding of, not of what is correct, but what should be the new conformity.