Don't think for one second that it will come back to haunt them.
The main reason Republicants don't want Donny playing with the 13th and 14th amendments by Executive Order, is because they know that when a Democratic president gets in, the first thing he's going to do is wallpaper the Second Amendment with executive orders. Eventually, it will be illegal to own a potato gun.
Republicants may be dumb, but they're not stupid.
It's been said, that once you open a can of worms, you always need a larger can to get them all back in.