I think, and this is coming from a place of virtual ignorance, that this series of events points to Bannon’s desire to remake everything ASAP. That there’s an understanding amongst the cabal (wow, we’ve come back to the type of terminology that was used during the Bush years) that time is short and maximal damage must be inflicted as quickly as possible using executive privilege.
I mean, we’re leaning so heavily on the Judicial Branch for oversight because the other two are so badly compromised.
I guess that the way I’m reading the situation is that, if we were dealing with halfway competent actors, none of this shit would have been attempted before Gorsuch had been confirmed.
Now that Trump has made a point of demonstrating that the judiciary is there to rubberstamp his EOs, that his nominee for the SC must be seen in this light (as Schumer has recently recognised); how is it possible that an adroit political mind like Bannon has not argued for a more measured and timely approach? Unless he knows just how time-poor the administration is and how compromised Trump will soon be revealed to be. It’s possible that he’s just as stupid as Trump. Or that Trump can’t be controlled.

I still don’t know how to read their roadmap. If ham-fisted incompetence is a cover for some deep scheme, I’m failing to see it.