Every time the left enforces a purity test, it exiles entire constituencies and cannibalizes its own. Chavez is just the latest casualty. The message to union workers is unmistakable: identity and moral posturing outrank labor solidarity. So they don’t reform the left—they leave it, and many end up under the MAGA tent. This isn’t just optics. It’s a generational strategic blunder the left will pay for.