The problem I am seeing with the "Traditionalist Movement" is that it is stagnating, it gets smaller and smaller and the Trads just stick to themselves in their little holes and groups societies or whatever they put themselves together as. They stagnate... where is the apostolic spirit of evangelization? Being "Church Militant" does not mean to squander your faith in an underground bunker where it'll suffocate and die with you, and that is what I'm seeing so far. It's disheartening. They all seem to be on retreat in stead of on the charge or at least steady marching. Cowering and victim mentality does not lead to sparks which cause a fire.
Getting smaller and stagnating are 2 different things. A group can get smaller but also stronger. Traditionalism is getting stronger, even if it's decreasing in numbers. Why?
1. Because much of the growth in Traditionalism was in the sspx who invited in all manner of "conservative" novus ordo people and they did not A) instruct them in the whys of tradition, so these people don't know why the sspx exists (or tradition in general); all they know is the sspx "prefers the old mass". The sspx (under +Fellay) did a HORRIBLE job of initiating many people into true catholicism. Instead, they grew their numbers by accepting people who were interested in the "smells and bells" but that's it. B) The sspx took their foot off the gas pedal in attacking Modernism and V2, which is the reason they were able to attract the kinds of people mentioned above.
2. The "motu" of 2007 has had the effect of "divide and conquer" on the traditionalism movement because A) the millenial generation thinks that the mass is all that matters, at the expense of Truth/Faith, so many of them have left Tradition for the indult. B) the above mentioned "smells and bell'ers" see the sspx and the indult as very similar, so their outlook on Traditionalism is weak at best.
I don't see many trads going into a bunker or hiding their Faith. I see more and more "fake trads" closing their ears and choosing the indult and not wanting to debate why they shouldn't. If anything, the growth for the future of Tradition is among protestants, not indult/novus ordo catholics (they have compromised, rejected the Faith, and who's to say that their hearts will be open to coming back? It doesn't happen often, sadly.)
God has allowed this growing apathy among Trads to test their resolve. Who will put the Faith above the mass? Who will stand with Truth in the face of long-suffering and the seemingly never-ending new rome attacks? Nothing has changed in new rome since the 60s; they are still without the full Faith. Yet many people have let their guard down and have been lulled to sleep to accept the Trojan Horse of the indult. 11 of the 12 Apostles abandoned Our Lord; yet the one who stayed til the Cross was most loved by Him. Christ does not need an army to resurrect the Church; all he needs are quality Catholics who are not infected with worldliness and compromise. Let us all resolve to be, as the marines' slogan says "the few, the proud" to serve Christ and protect Orthodoxy!