“Names in politics serve in order to differentiate and not in order to throw everything into the same heap.” Leon Trotsky A journalist recently solicited AOC’s opinion of the Cornel West candidacy. While praising his “incredibly important” voice, she cautioned that, in supporting Dr. West, “the cost could be fascism” and “that’s no joke.” AOC is not the first and no doubt won’t be the last Democratic Party official to invoke the specter of Trumpian fascism in order to discourage a third-party challenge. To be sure, it’s not as if the Democratic Party was receptive to a third-party challenger on the Left—be it a Jill Stein or a Ralph Nader—even before it discovered a looming fascist takeover. The problem, however, is not just inconsistency; it’s ignorance.