Steve Bannon’s problem is that he lives in a fantasy world. Anyone who thinks the man is a friend of conservatism is similarly deluded.

Bannon is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who spent much of the past two decades in Hollywood producing 18 films. Most conservatives know him as head of Breitbart News, an online political site that Bannon himself describes as the “platform for the alt-right.”

Bannon lasted seven months in President Donald Trump’s White House before getting the boot. He served as White House chief strategist, a position and title created for him by the president.

Despite being shown the door, Bannon has vowed to launch a “season of war” against Republican lawmakers he believes are insufficiently loyal to the president. He says he plans to target five GOP senators for defeat in Republican primaries with the ultimate goal of ousting Kentucky’s U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell from his role as majority leader.

Those on Bannon’s target list are Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, Alabama Sen. Luther Strange, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. Corker and Flake have already bowed out, although Corker’s re-election was all but certain had he decided to run again.

Strange was defeated in a recent special election by Roy Moore, a twice-removed Alabama appellate judge. Ironically, Trump supported Strange, who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general.

Bannon, however, supported Moore, perhaps now to Bannon’s chagrin. Our take is that the two deserve each other.

Moore was removed as Alabama’s chief justice after defying a federal court order to relocate a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building. He later won re-election to the post but was removed again for instructing probate judges to enforce that state’s ban on same-sex marriages despite a federal court ruling that the ban is unconstitutional.

This charade of piety all came crashing down recently. Five women came forward with accounts of Moore’s proclivity as a 30-something prosecutor to pursue and even sexually assault young girls who had not reached the age of consent. Moore all but convicted himself with non-denial denials in a bizarre interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

The fallout, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, has been that several of the deep pockets Bannon was counting on to finance his “season of war” have cut ties with him. Notable among them are casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his wife, who told the WSJ through a spokesperson that they will not be backing Bannon’s effort and “are supporting Mitch McConnell 100 percent.”

McConnell recently made headlines with his observation about an earlier crop of alt-right candidates, all of whom lost to Democrats. Standing aside Trump at a Rose Garden news conference, McConnell said, “The way you (succeed in Congress) is not complicated. You have to nominate people who can actually win, because winners make policy and losers go home.”

Bannon doesn’t get that. He doesn’t understand that nominating his type of candidate is forfeiting a seat to Democrats. He’s deluded in this regard. Fortunately, thanks to Moore, he also is probably irrelevant.