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Modern "trads" (who increasingly overlap with the Catholic "neocons") revel in disobedience, they live for it, it excites them and gives them energy (and often it is a source of profit). By contrast, the disobedience of Archbishop Lefebvre, regarded as the "father" of...
...modern traditionalism, was undertaken with much pain and suffering, a desperate decision made only after the severest and painstaking deliberation. It genuinely gave him great sadness to have to differ from the will of his superiors. Lefebvre may have done wrong, but he...
...remained fundamentally an integralist, an anti-liberal to the core. His disobedience was never motivated by the willful individualism and, frankly, liberalism (libertarianism) that motivates the "trads" who are now corrupting the minds of many Catholics.
This observation is not meant to justify or defend what Lefebvre did (which I think is a non-issue at this point in history). It is merely to point out the great difference between Lefebvre, who always remained a man of the Church (however complicated his relationship), and...
...the present-day charlatans who run around peddling the rhetoric of "traditionalism" only to sow the seeds of liberalism and, indeed, schism in the hearts of the faithful. The latter will have much more to account for before the throne of God.
