Trump's farewell address.
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More immigration during a time when many citizens are unemployed or just barely scraping by. It may not be a de jure type of open borders scenario, but I don't see a future where a flood of illegals march to the border and want to be let in but are refused entry.
There is interest in neutering the 2nd Amendments. With Biden on record talking about his hard line stance on gun control, and then having Robert O'Rourke possibly be an advisor to the administration and that's a scenario which would lead to Biden/Harris using EO to change policies for departments under the Executive's control. The 1st Amendment is already being neutered. Pelosi and her recent change to the language used in the House regarding gender terms. The narrative from the Left for several years now has been to shape language and tailor it to their liking. Now, even more than before, they want to deplatform, censor, and blacklist people who either worked for Trump or supported him. Wrap up that type of thing in an EO for public grants or government jobs, and it would take a massive effort via lawsuits by someone directly affected (who hopefully can afford the court costs) to even challenge it.
I didn't know that about the Pelosi bit so thanks for the clarification. The problems I have with the private companies doing the regulation are that it eventually becomes accepted as normal in society to do such things to people simply for political affiliation, and then legislators pick up on it. Once legislators pick up on it they pander to constituents and draw up legislation to codify the new things.
His 2nd Amendment changes wouldn't only be background checks. He's stated that he wants a system similar to that used for suppressors and other regulated items. Registration of items and a tax of some amount on each item. The example used several times was large capacity magazines. Many gun owners have many large capacity magazines. Thus they would either pay a small fortune, relinquish ownership, or face legal trouble. Personally, I've always been miffed at their usage of the phrase "assault weapon" and wish they would finally detail what they mean by it so that at least then people would know exactly what is being referred to by the term.