Marshall at TPM hits it pretty well out of the park:

So many things are happening right now - mostly with the actors in question having no clear plan for what they’re doing - that it’s very hard to know where our politics will be a week from now let alone in six months. But there’s one thing we can see clearly and it’s worth noting: top Republican stakeholders are breaking a lot of china right now that will be very, very hard to unbreak. What seems most relevant to me is that almost all of this is being done with no clear sense of an end-game or even a clear plan.