I'm interested in any insightful intel on Steve Bannon
Some basic background:
He is genuinely interested in the declining white working middle class. Elites and bankers should not expect to see their interests served. He has implicated that he prefers creative chaos through destruction.
He is openly a national socialist. While that's literally what the Nazis were, he is not a Neo-Nazi.
One significant difference on the surface level is that while the (Neo-)Nazis are were/are antisemitic, Bannon seems to be anti-islamic.
He is militant. He is interested in a land war in the Middle East. On the other hand, his experience in foreign policy is thin. His ideological enemy therefore is "Islam" - an ism, not a state or other organisation. Given the US track-record of waging war to things like "crime", "drugs" and "terror" and losing every single one of them, this doesn't sound too good.
Bannon himself is no yes-man. He is extremely strong willed, unscrupulous and doesn't give a shit about what anyone else says. He is extremely intelligent strategic thinker, with encyclopedic information. His skills of manipulation are more than good. [Mmmm ... he sounds a bit like @mindhunter :D Sorry editor!]
An underlying coup?
My guess is there will be blood, and his hands will be in it. But I'd like to understand his thinking. For example, he must have seen that someone - now a district court - would overrule the ban of visa holders from entering the country. Then why did he do that? To test to loyalty of executive ranks? Who would respond and how?
Ideologically there's a coup going on. Bannon tends to see everything as war, and everyone not on their side is an enemy. He and Trump share the trait of trying relentlessly destroy whoever opposes them. The national media has already been labelled them an enemy, and a a US federal judge was referred to a "so-called judge" by the president. Sounds like the executive branch is on war against the Third and Fourth Estates. Expect to see retaliative measures.
The final and most important concern is the inevitable clash of the executive and legislative branches. Trump is not a Republican, and Bannon is even less. In the long run the Grand Old Party is bound to either split to the Trumpians and his opposers or disintegrate entirely. In either case Trump will lose his support in the Congress. At that point he either has to yield bitter negotiations with the Congress, win majority for his own party (not GOP) in elections or do away with the institution. Bannon knows this. What's his plan?
Any intel that sheds light to his line of thought or means to accomplish his plans would be most welcome. Thank you, and have a great day.