Why couldn't the Tridentine flourish (or not) right along with the NO? And why in God's name do we need another Patriarch?
The Novus Ordo is the normative Mass of the Latin Rite. Period. The Tridentine Mass is an exception, and will always be an exception.
A parish community divided by liturgy will be divided in other ways as well, since the Mass is the central unifying celebration of that parish.
That's why I've come to the conclusion there is simply no way to bring the two together.
What about daily Mass? Are ardent devotees of the Tridentine not going to demand, and have a right to, a daily low mass?
No. There has to be a separate rite, with all of its own celebrations, liturgies, and parishes. Then we'll see how genuine the Ferraras, and Woods, and Seattle Catholics' and Latin Mass Magazines' really are.
Do they want to build their own communities centered on the Tridentine Mass, or is their real objective to destroy the Novus Ordo?
The best thing for Catholic unity that could possibly happen, IMO, is to drive THE REMNANT and its clones out of business by giving them their own Rite, bishops, and clergy so that they could worship in the way they want to. Somehow, I suspect they would continue to troll the Latin Rite, however, sniping, and griping, and complaining of the Novus Ordos' very existence.