I always suspected he thought he could get away with the things Obastard got away with.
That isn't how it works. Democrats get away with things their base supports, by and large, and the Republicans in COngress go along with them in the 'spirit of bipartisanship'. On the rare occasions when Republicans can pull off things that would have had GOP voters parading in the streets with pitchforks and torches if a Democrat had tried to pull that crap, the Republicans advance the 'ball' toward totalitarianism a little farther. Then we get a Democrat, and they do the same.
It has been "hayfoot, strawfoot" down that same road since LBJ, one side or the other shredding its little part of the Constitution on the way. There is bloody little 'back and forth'. The only retrograde movement is seen when the Republicans manage to temporarily mute some of the Democrat overreach (like the penalty of the ACA), but even that is temporary.
People get what they vote for, and that isn't turning out so well.