“Radical Traditional”
Did you catch that? They say the quiet part out loud now. Does this even make any sense? In political speak, a “radical” is one who advocates revolutionary reforms. That’s why they are called “radicals”. Traditional Catholics aren’t revolutionary, they are about the farthest from it.
What they are doing, or not doing really, is declining to bow to the pressures of the mob or popular culture against their liturgy. It’s telling that we are seeing this same word salad inversion of the meaning of words. This is only ever done to confuse, or deceive people. I think any fair minded person knows who the “radicals” are in this equation, and it isn’t the group who has held the same beliefs for 2000 years.
G.K. Chesterton is described by most as a traditionalist. He described himself as a radical.
What he is, and what the left despises, are counter-revolutionaries. “Contra” for short. Just because our revolution is playing out with less visible violence and in a slower pace with occasional punctuation (1968, and the LGBT nonsense after Kennedy’s decision) than the French and Russian Revolutions doesn’t make it any less real.