On another note, is someone from KY going to try to take over the leadership of the resistance even more forcefully now?
Well, they have excommunicated everyone outside their "cult" -- which has its short-term worldly advantages for the cult, but on the flip side it DOES have a downside: A lack of influence or pull in the "Resistance at large". Unless you are at one of the local chapels served by Boston, KY, or one of their "priests", they really are a non-issue.
Most Trads don't think highly or poorly of Boston, KY. They don't think about them at all. That is the worst outcome, for them.
They have become invisible, irrelevant.
Just like if America withdrew into 100% isolationism. Sure, it would mostly be a good thing. BUT you can't say there wouldn't be a downside. We wouldn't have global dominance or influence any longer -- and that IS a thing. Something we would notice.
That's the problem with ANY excommunication -- including "cutting off contact with" one of your wayward children. Yes, the black sheep is out of your life, which saves you a lot of stress, anguish, temptations, etc.
But now you can no longer influence him or her, not in the least. You get no further say, no chance to vote or comment on anything they do henceforward. They are out of your life, but you are out of their life as well.
I am not only an active member of the most popular Trad Catholic forum on the Internet, but I'm the owner and moderator of it. What I'm trying to say is: I'm not one of those isolated Trads that doesn't feel the need to socialize with other Trads and/or keep up to speed with news in the Trad world. AND YET -- sometimes
months go by during which I forget Boston, KY even exists. I'm sure that's true for many others as well.