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From first principles he basically rediscovers something close to the benefits of segregation. In America if you’re rich you can buy your way out of societal issues of our lower class. In his case he’s specifically referring to trans but the arguments holds for gun violence, safe schools, pretty neighborhoods that are maintained (no trash), and a host of other issues.
Europeans always looked down on America because we have a lot of social economic issues they don’t have (until recently). Their lower class got these things for free because they were homogenous populations. He’s a trad Catholic and to be honest I don’t think that exists much anywhere anymore, but if your a trad Catholic it’s nice just having a Catholic Church on every block and everyone in your community sharing the same beliefs. Probably the last bastion of trad Catholicism was Argentina but from the best I can tell they got the feminism virus.
Hickman doesn't get along well with other tradcaths because his philosophical positions, uh, don't come off well, and tradcaths are used to frighteningly extreme entryists no one wants to be around. He could move to St Mary's(the SSPX's quarantine village for their in house crazies). Hickman wants his particular going your own way thing, but he's not going to find a community built around it except maybe the Amish.
This is kind of what I expected. A lot of these kind of grouchy iconoclastic guys do a ton of work to carve out their own path but then lack any kind of community and their kids just leave because there's not a community for them to become an adult in. I wrote a longer post above but his entire problem basically boils down to lack of any community that shares his ideas.
I suspect that's what will happen with the Collins' children. I can't see them adopting their dad's techno-puritanism.
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