I think Bergolio’s dream scenario was to get all the Trads under the SSPX umbrella. He tried nicely initially, and when that got him nowhere, he decided to go Hardball.
I still believe he wants all the Trads under one roof, and once he does, he will excommunicate the Society.
The “cattle herding” yes! (A тαℓмυdic concept BTW).
But, this forum is dedicated to the fact that the SSPX has sold out their founder +ABL and Catholic tradition. Many. many articles archived here on that.
So if the neo-SSPX has betrayed Tradition and become covertly regularized with the Pachamama Pope, they are in on the grand scheme.
I don’t see them being excommunicated, rather than acting as fake trad high Church.
It is rather telling when the SSPX’s “science” priest (Paul Robinson) announces recently, that the biggest threat to the Catholic Faith... is the trad Resistance.