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Did Carter pass anything like the ACA? Did he issue executive orders that provided amnesty to millions?

The ACA is not the only damaging thing that has been done to our country. Under Carter Iran was toying with the US by kidnapping a large number of Americans (Carter did tremendous damage by not backing the Shah and allowing the mullahs to take power) and gas prices were skyrocketing. Russia invaded Afganistan. South American countries near our border were going communist. Mortgage interest was 18% or higher. Hopelessness was palpable. Russian had more missiles than we did. Enemies were at our gates and there was no leadership.

Than a change in leadership and almost overnight Americans gained confidence. It remains a truism that a leader can either lead toward destruction or hope. People had real hope for most of the Bush years. Revisionist history says we were miserable for most of Bush's presidency. Lies. He had 55 months od straight growth despite 9/11 and 2 tough wars. We haven't had even ONE day of hope under Obama.

You don't necessarily need a nuclear option under a GOP Pres to get legislation signed. Remember, there are a few Dems who agree with some current GOP legislation. We got sixty three votes on Keystone and if the country votes in a GOP President there would be more dems under pressure to vote for right leaning legislation especially if Obama continues to screw things up now which he will.

The Dems will never allow the ACA to be replaced or undone

Already there are 30 Dems who voted for the ACA who got voted out. If this continues it doesn't matter what the Dems "will" or "will not" allow. If we get piece by piece legislation that will reform health care and a GOP President then who cares what the radical Dems think?

Problem is...you're not looking to the future or what can happen. There could very well be another sweep in '16 as more and more people get disillusioned by the ACA, ISIS, Obama socialist policy, etc. It happened last year even though there were plenty on the right who never said it would. It could very very well happen again.

Under Carter Iran was toying with the US by kidnapping a large number of Americans (Carter did tremendous damage by not backing the Shah and allowing the mullahs to take power)

I am very familiar with what Carter did in Iran. I was in our embassy on February 14, 1979 when it was overrun the first time. We were held hostage for just a few hours until the GOI convinced the MEK to release us, but they still occupied the compound for months afterwards.

The mullahs hijacked the Iranian Revolution.

Carter was a terrible President, but he did nothing comparable to the ACA and Obama's executive amnesties. These programs are not going to be reversed. The political will is not there to do so.

You are talking about fixing Obamacare, not repealing it. No doubt the GOPe favors that approach despite paying lip service for repeal. The only hope, albeit a slim one, is that SCOTUS will rule in our favor re Obamacare subsidies for states that opted for federal-run exchanges. A siginificant number of GOP Governors have opted for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. Each day that passes makes the likelihood of repeal of the ACA more and more remote,

I have been around for 71 years. We no longer have the same country demographically when Reagan appeared on the scene. In 1970 89% of the country was non-Hispanic whites compared to 63% today. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign-born; today it is one in 8, the highest it has been in over 90 years. The Dems are rapidly becoming the permanent majority party. When you look at an electoral map, it is hard to see what states that went for Obama in 2012 will go for a Rep in 2016.