The middle school dropout may start the mob phase of his Cultural Revolution 2.0

With so much resentment and internal cracks, the middle school dropout may have the same reason as Mao did to start the mob phase of its cultural revolution 2.0, but I am not sure he had sufficient worship from the masses to carry it out.

In an extremely rare case, Mao admitted his mistake in the famine at a conference with 7k attendees in 1962 and ceded part of his power to Liu and Deng. 

Mao always found a way to take back his power. He usually maneuvered at the top, but it was hard for him to do it this time after the famine with Liu and Deng gaining widespread respect, so he mobilized the masses to help him get rid of bureaucrats on the "wrong" side.

His success was spectacular for him - he regained a firm grip on the power. 

The middle school dropout has not lost any power but the discontent with him is probably as widespread as it was with Mao in the early 60s if not more.

The bureaucrats of Shanghai apparently defied his zero-tolerance order early this year. Anyone who can feel the real pulse of the economy (e.g., business elites, local gov officials) cannot be happy with his idiocy.

His hitmen of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) are great for purging key political opponents at the top but they have very limited use for handling widespread discontent.

For him, it would be ideal to mobilize mass mobs of youngsters to purge bureaucrats at every level and replace them with his worshippers as Mao did. 

High youth unemployment rates make the mobilization easier.

Again, I doubt he has sufficient clout to do it, but it is a possibility. I hope he will do it to wreak havoc hence accelerating the CCP's demise.

Anything can happen in such an uncertain year.

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