1/ Thought I'd do a thread about reasons to be cheerful about the Cultural Revolution. All of these are variations on the same theme: the Red Guards have seized cultural power, but not political power.

2/ It's a coup in which the revolutionaries have secured the public broadcaster, but not the military. They don't have a monopoly over the legitimate use of force – they can't murder or imprison counter-revolutionaries, just cancel them – and that means the coup will fail.

3/ Take universities, art schools, dance schools, drama schools, colleges of further education, etc. The coup has been 100% successful in those institutions. There's literally zero tolerance for any dissent from Woke orthodoxy across the HE sector.

4/ But the timing of the revolutionaries isn't great. >50% of those institutions will shortly be facing an existential crisis because of Covid. Travel restrictions will mean fewer non-British students, exacerbated by the fact that EU nationals will no longer get the fee break.

5/ And a lot of students who've accepted places will defer for a year, what with lectures and tutorials delivered online, campus social life hampered by stupid social distancing rules, nightlife in university cities non-existent. So most universities are facing a perfect storm.

6/ >50% won't survive unless they can attract more students in 2021 and persuade the Govt to bail them out. So what do they do? They make it crystal clear that if you're not a member of a victim group you'll be demonised from day one. Make a pass at a girl? You're a rapist.

7/ Voice the mildest dissent from the BLM policy agenda – you think it might not be a great idea to defund the police, for instance – and you're a racist. Say you think JK Rowling might have a point and you're a transphobe.

8/ At a time when the sector needs to attract as many new students as it can – and persuade a Conservative Government to bail it out! – it has doubled down on hard Left anti-capitalist gobbledegook and created an aggressively hostile environment for anyone to the right of Corbyn.

9/ So the good news is at least half of these Woke-us Dei religious seminaries will go bankrupt (assuming the Govt holds it nerve). The pipeline the cult has been using to pump lobotomised activists into the workforce is about to be bombed.

10/ The Professor of Whiteness Studies at the University of Central Bedfordshire will lose his £120,000-a-year, taxpayer-subsidised job and end up driving an Uber, where his ability to make converts will be confined to drunk couples snogging on the back seat.

11/ What about schools? The coup has been 100% successful in schools, too. Private and state. So many people have sent me documentary evidence that their children's schools are now teaching the BLM Gospel, with heretics being burnt at the stake, I've stopped collecting it.

12/ So children will be bombarded with anti-British, Neo-Marxist propaganda from 9am to 3.30pm five days a week. They'll be taught that British history is an unbroken litany of oppression, exploitation and self-deception. The message will be: "Hate your country and yourself."

13/ But with everyone singing from the same hymn sheet – teachers, comedians, the BBC, the Premier League, Hollywood, etc. – most teenagers are bound to reject this dogma. Counter-cultural revolutionaries like Jordan Peterson will have the added glamour of being outcasts.

14/ And the more Woke the metropolitan elite becomes, the more likely right-wing populists are to win elections. Working class voters see this puritanical self-flagellation (we're such sinners!) for what it is – a way for high-caste whites to differentiate themselves from them.

15/ It's an expression of snobbish contempt dressed up as a self-righteous crusade. And the more left-wing parties embrace this nonsense, the more they alienate traditional working class voters. I think Trump will win in November.

16/ So absent an actual coup, the High Priests of the Intersectionality Cult will never obtain political power. And even though the process will be slow, right-wing politicians will gradually turn off the financial faucets that are funding this religious movement.

17/ Another asset for the counter-revolutionary side is that the people the Red Guards go after are often the smartest people in their fields/professions. Brilliant academics, teachers, actors, community organisers, comedians, etc., are being cancelled every day.

18/ And the upshot is that they become highly-motivated Generals in the counter-revolution. In the Soviet Union, picking off the Communist Party's most gifted opponents worked because they were imprisoned or murdered. But just cancelling people isn't nearly as effective.

19/ So this Mao-ist moment in which the Red Guards seem to be sweeping all before them could be a last hurrah. They've seized an important bridge head, but haven't secured their supply lines. It's the French Revolution without the guillotine.

20/ I don't mean to sound glib. I know 100s of good people are being black-listed every day at the behest of rage mobs. It's McCarthyism on steroids. But take heart. Join the resistance. Our opponents have immersed themselves in Foucault, but not Machiavelli. We will win.