There was a time it was enough to call ourselves Christians, but then we had to call ourselves Catholic to distinguish ourselves from early Church heretics and schismatics. And then there was a time we had to call ourselves Roman Catholics to distinguish those of us in union with Rome from the Church of England.
And now we must call ourselves traditional Catholics to distinguish Catholics explicitly loyal to Catholic Tradition and the TLM from Catholics who are not. It is a practical necessity.
Traditional Catholicism is no more than following the Faith of our Catholic ancestors going back to the Apostles. It is aligning with the way the Faith was presented and practiced up until the Second Vatican Council and the conciliar period. It does not, nor should it be equated to joining an American,1950’s style religious, politically conservative private country club of elites, those who subscribe to that model being in practice social darwinists, as if that is the Catholic standard for the TLM parish or chapel. Traditional Catholicism relative to the Novus Ordo is extraordinary, but relative to itself and Church history is doing what was ordinary before 1962. It means simply being Catholic, whereas Novus Ordo modernism or the ape of the Church does not.