I think the libs are more cunning than Trads in takeover strategy.
They were out of favor and marginalized for thousands of years because they kept fighting openly and kept being condemned. After 1900 years they adopted a new stealth strategy, went underground, played along with the establishment and entrenched themselves in positions of authority and then brought about the revolution. We are talking about 2,000 years of trial and error leading to an astute level of cunning.
Trads are only 50 years old if that much and we are doing as they used to. Being open about our beliefs and getting condemned and censured by the authority and marginalized.
It seems we can either continue to fight from the "outside" or do we perhaps go stealth, get a large # of our ranks ordained as NO priests, then consecrated as NO Bishops, publicly towing the party line but privately sticking to Tradition and then when we have the #'s start the counter-revolution?
Just a thought. Fight fire with fire perhaps? A secret brotherhood of "approved" Trad priests, acting in the shadows?
Would make for a good movie anyhow!