same reason republicans vote for Trump instead of neocon Democrats: why go for the generic brand when you've got the real thing?

I'm not, tbh. I liked a lot of the things Cornel West had to say, but given his contentious interactions with the Green Party after they endorsed him as their candidate, he just seemed fundamentally unserious even by third party standards. I don't really understand what he was trying to accomplish with his campaign. To me it just seemed like he was trying to sow chaos on the left at a time when it needed to be showing a united front.

Pretty big chunk of white left leaning libs would go for PSL but not West. I probably would've gone for him if he wasn't kicked out of the race in my state.