Do you know anyone who opposes birth control and wants it banned?

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17. Oh, yeah, they're out there. You find them more on the internet...

...than you do in real life. So they have their extremist Reddit groups, and before that, their websites. Social media really turned things up to 11, because you don't have to drive traffic to a website like you did in the late '90s; there's now millions, maybe more, browsing social media and looking for the latest way to be extreme. It acts like an extremism amplifier. EWTN is sort of the diving board into the pool of extremism within Catholicism.

Many radtrads look at it like a competition to be the most extreme. The younger ultra-radtrads absolutely hate EWTN for being...too liberal. From there, they move on to (Ir)-Relevant Radio, then to Ave Maria Radio, and on to various online-only programming, and then they search out local radtrad Latin Mass "societies". Most large cities have them. Cradle Catholics--who are generally averse to radtradism--often call them "Lexus Masses" because many of the parishioners are quite well-off and commute in from the suburbs to a usually little-used former geographical parish that has been repurposed into a Latin-Mass-only church. The priest comes in on Sunday, says a couple radtrad Masses, and then locks the place up until next week.

The latest thing with the radtrads is to leave Catholicism for Eastern Orthodoxy (e.g. Rod Dreher), and if that's not traddy or "based" enough, they join ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia).