Steve Bannon, who with every unhinged quote since his departure from the Trump administration provides further evidence for my theory that he is a secretly prolific author of Game of Thrones fanfiction, has wrapped his first weekend back at Breitbart News, and if its recent editorial bent is any indication, Jared Kushner is about to have one more reason to lie awake at night. This exchange, as reported by Vanity Fair, seems fairly representative:

[BANNON'S PROBABLY-QUAVERING FRIEND] "Why do you sound unfazed?"

[BANNON, IN HIS BEST JEREMY IRONS VOICE] "Because we're going to war."

Bannon apparently has decided that his absence from the White House means that the White House is now, functionally, a Democratic one, and that he is duty-bound to either bring it to heel or, if it won't cooperate, grind it into a fine red-white-and-blue dust. It's not difficult to see why he thinks this, if you adopt the mindset of a paranoid lunatic who viewed the job he just lost as a suicide mission to see how deeply he could embed his Breitbartian worldview in this administration's DNA before being forcibly expelled by his marginally less delusional counterparts: Jared Kushner was a Democrat. Ivanka Trump was a Democrat. Gary Cohn was a Democrat. Hell, even Trump himself was a Democrat for a while, until he figured out that pandering to simmering racial resentment and unvarnished xenophobia was a more tenable political strategy than running for office on the merits of his policy positions, to the extent that any such positions exist.

Although Friday's termination might be seen as evidence that Kushner won the long-running holy war between the two men, Bannon seems entirely unperturbed by his lack of West Wing credentials: