They will still successfully bully speakers at conferences, threaten their security. I don’t think the cultural revolution is such a far fetch comparison. Somewhere between the cultural revolution and the Hollywood blacklist/McCarthyism.

And the exercises of forced public contrition if you violate the orthodoxy are right in the middle of the cultural revolution. As is the gilt of class (now “whiteness”), or the liberal use of "fascism" in every sentence (now "white suppremacy" associated with everything in America on MSNBC).