By every single metric that Republicans have utilized in their application of power, Joe Biden has a massive mandate. Unlike Republicans, he'lll win a 50%-plus majority of the votes; something neither the Senate majority, Trump or Dubya managed. He flipped Georgia and Arizona...

...meaning he has both a red state and a blue state coalition. He won voters of all races, including 4 in 10 plurality of white Americans, 9 in 10 Black Americans and two-thirds of Latinos and a majority of AAPI voters. So he has an historic demographic mandate, too.

And guess what? Even had he done NONE OF THAT, by the Republican definition of power, all he has to do is win. Even if by a single point, that gives him the unchecked power to do "whatever he wants" (the Trump claim that not a single Republican refuted in four long years.)

By the Trump standard, which again -- EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN, FROM WEAK SUSAN COLLINS TO LINDSEY GRAHAM TO MITT ROMNEY APPROVED either through passivity of silence -- Biden will have the unchecked authority to ignore congressional subpoenas, appropriate funds for his projects...

... ignore court orders, and refuse to allow his cabinet members to testify before congressional committees. He will be able to violate the Hatch Act, and the emoluments clause. And there's not a damned thing Republicans, who were quiet and obedient to Trump can say about it.

Republicans have unleashed the presidency. And the only thing that will save them is that Joe Biden is a far better man than Donald Trump ever was. Let's just hope he doesn't return the presidency to the status quo ante, and let Mitch McConnell run wild with the power HE wields.