They confuse “mandate” with “we will only do what is legal and what the American people want”—nope. They don’t CARE what the people want.
The idea that there is any need to conform to the wishes of the constituents is people thinking this was an election on policies. It was not.
It was an election to avoid the rule of law. To fundamentally change our country to assure the plutocrats win.
They don’t care about the 99%. They don’t have to now.