Presidents can’t change laws.
Even if they think they can.
Ignore him.
But the bureaucracy will implement what he decides. You are right presidents don’t make laws. But that’s only if everyone recognizes that. The media and the bureaucracy which enforce regulations, will take his decrees as having the force of law. The only legal way to stop him is through the courts, as I see it.
. . . passive and occasionally active resistance by the States and localities.
Just my personal take on how things really happen and what is required to sustain tyranny. (And whenever the courts are wrong, ignore, defy, refuse to enforce, etc., as convenient.)
In some ways, government overreach requires us all to believe in fairies simultaneously. When local officials stop reacting as dutifully, and there is too much of a slowdown everywhere at once, we transition instead to a local policy of "round up the usual suspects." Or more likely, "schedule a meeting with community leaders to discuss the importance of the President's latest initiative, and maybe go bowling as the main part of the meeting."
[[But the bureaucracy will implement what he decides. You are right presidents don’t make laws.]]
Actually presidents do make laws now- illegally- and congress does NOTHING to prevent htem from doing so unless of course it’s a republican president
[[The only legal way to stop him is through the courts,]]
The same court that illegally called the HC law a tax? (or did they call it ‘not a tax’ in order to get it through as ‘legal’? Can’t remember which now) Then they turned around LATER and called it the opposite-