I don't think he has a plan, i agree with you, i'm more in the school of his instinct will drive him into this sequence of events and it will carry people.No he's just thick. He exists in a world of pure reaction based on the situation around him and has nothing nothing planned that is not already in visual range. Everyone scrambles around him trying to read the tea leaves but there's nothing there and there never has been.
He's very good at it though, he absorbs the mood of the nation and then reflects it back. Similar to how Kanye West makes music imho. Living Zeitgeists but don't ask them to plan ahead.
i do agree with @pete though, he's roughly on collision course with the supreme court, the one he stacked.