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.
I’d agree with that, good point. “Not one step back”, the left never quits, and they don’t ever want to lose ground. Their legislation is always “settled law”. They know more than anyone though, the mob is fickle and can turn on a dime. Thus their neurotic obsession with 100% control of speech, for example.