What? He did that all by himself and well before he traded in his V2-era suit-and-tie for a white cassock.
When I read your words above, it made me think of those who endlessly excuse and defend Trumpenstein's clearly problematic words and actions. He is not being thwarted or made to look bad by those around him; he is doing the job he has been assigned and doing it really well while far too many remain utterly oblivious to the reality of the situation.
Benedict XVI was not perfect. But he was made to look much worse by his enemies. He was definitely not a manifest heretic.
The problem is that "trads" who have been in "the movement" for decades stopped paying attention to the details of what was happening in the Church long ago. They got their news filtered by outfits like Novus Ordo Watch. They didn't actually read any of the papal docuмents to discover what was really said. They just see the headline and give themselves a self-congratulatory pat on the back for their great foresight in leaving the Novus Ordo before everyone else did.
The end times deception really is a very complex deception that causes confusion in many groups, traditional Catholics included. We see this with the SSPX getting sucked back into the false Church at the time of the greatest apostasy.
BXVI, Joseph Ratzinger, will redeem himself. It is prophesied. He is the Pope of "the same name" as Joseph Sarto, Pope Pius X. He is "the Venerable Old Man of Rome who will be vested in his former garments" as Don Bosco said. There is no need to argue with me. You are free to disagree. I cannot prove anything.
I know it sounds crazy. But the only thing more crazy than that is to think that the current hierarchy is going to elect a trad Pope and take it all back to 1959. No, the real solution will be something that most people cannot imagine. And it will involve supernatural events like the Warning and the Miracle, along with human events like the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart by a true Pope.