But it has strong support from one of the miners that matter in the cryptospace. Jihan Wu, the owner of the asic empire called Bitmain. Roger Ver also supports it, and a minority of the community who act like zealots follow him.
They have a growing propaganda machine in /r/btc which have a lot of bitcoin newbies who think they are in the correct bitcoin subreddit. So yes it will rise to 1k and beyond.
I don't think it can go 1k and beyond because they got incompetent devs that rip off core's code. If bitcoin cash can change that and write some original bug free code then this will be much more interesting.
I will keep half of my bitcoin cash incase they pump again because Core vs Jihan Wu and Roger Ver is far from over.