the majority of children raised in Traditional Catholic homes do not retain the faith. Hence, the “Experiment of Tradition” has failed, with very little statistical difference than the Novus Ordo.
This is simply not true.
The "majority" of children? seriously? If it's true that some families do a horrible job living the Traditional Catholic faith, and passing it on to their children (by WORD and EXAMPLE), but that isn't an indictment against the Faith! Quite the contrary.
Firstly, let's not mince words. Traditional Catholicism is just Catholicism minus Modernism. So basically "Catholicism".
This argument is as old as the hills. "If Catholicism is the true religion, why are there so many
shi lousy Catholics? Why isn't every Catholic a saint?" It's not the FAITH that is to blame in those cases, but their rejection of the Faith, that makes them crappy. It's not that Catholicism is deficient or inadequate to make Saints -- but you have to DRINK from the stream to receive its benefits. Throwing someone into the stream doesn't force them to drink. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
No religion, including the True Faith established by Christ Himself, takes a hold of people and violates their Free Will. It doesn't work that way.
Lastly, the statistics in Tradition are *nowhere near* those of the Novus Ordo. Whether you look at Mass attendance, knowledge of the Faith, etc. *all things being equal* you have much better chances attending ANY Traditional Mass chapel over just about ANY Novus Ordo parish. The two aren't even in the same league.
Long story short, the only indictments against Catholicism -- I mean Traditional Catholicism (same thing), are ANECDOTAL. Individuals using their Free Will. You show me a few families that did a horrible job raising their kids Catholic? I can show you some successful families that used Tradition with great success. So to resolve this stalemate, you have to look at Traditional Catholicism INTRINSICALLY. What is it, what does it teach, SHOULD it work, HAS it worked, etc.
If every failure of Tradition to produce Catholic kids is because parents send kids to public school, let them have smartphones (and porn that comes with that package), lets them hang around non-Catholics, etc. -- how can you blame Tradition for that? Nothing in Tradition says "send your kids to public school", "let your kids be on Social Media", "let your kids keep bad company with non-Catholics". Again, quite the contrary!
Tradition doesn't tell parents "You're sending your kids to a private (SSPX) school? You're good to go! Go, waste hours a day on the Internet, TV, video games, spend lots of ME time in your man cave. You don't need to teach your kids the Faith, or prepare them for battle with the godless World..."
...but many do this anyhow.
Those failures are because of the parents' choices -- not the rules, substance, essence, or culture of Catholic Tradition. So this isn't a "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Anyone can call themselves Traditional, but if they reject everything Tradition teaches, are they
really Traditional?
I don't think it's "up for grabs" whether someone is a Scotsman, a Catholic, or a Traditional Catholic. If you reject the Fifth Commandment, you are a material heretic, so technically not Catholic. Joe Biden, supporting Abortion, is therefore a material heretic at least and can't be considered a Catholic in his support of abortion. He does that on his own volition and not AS a Catholic.