[Texas resident]

What about barry just going around congress and executive ordering this action? Who would stand up to him?
He is already acting outside the law in a number of other ways, so what’s to stop him, his media? His senate?
He has more flexibility now.

[palmer]

He'll do lots of executive orders on smaller issues. A good example is his war on coal, he has harassed the mining operations using the mine safety, OSHA, Dept of Trans, Energy, EPA, etc. It is death by a thousand cuts. More importantly it stays off the radar and the stupid voters of Ohio whose electric bills will skyrocket (over 80% of their power comes from coal) voted him back in.

Even though he doesn't have to worry about their votes any more, he is smart enough not to pick a big target like confiscation of 401k's to do with an EO. He can nickel and dime them to death with EO's and that won't surprise me. But if he wants to win on a big issue, he will demagogue the class warfare aspect and ram it through the House.