Agreed on your second part. A part of Trump “superpower” is to introduce a lot of confusion around the bounds, and then convince at least his supporters that he is not really stepping over that where it should have been obvious that he does. So the category “should have been plainly illegal and would have been considered plainly illegal before, but now nobody knows anymore” is likely to be a lot better defined that “still plainly illegal”. Moreover, Trump is much more likely to attempt the former than the latter—not because he actually cares about not doing the latter, but because anything he actually does has a tendency to be reclassified from latter to former. Including after the fact—e.g. many of his past actions were moved from the latter category to former one by the Supreme Court presidential immunity decision...
Agreed on your second part. A part of Trump “superpower” is to introduce a lot of confusion around the bounds, and then convince at least his supporters that he is not really stepping over that where it should have been obvious that he does. So the category “should have been plainly illegal and would have been considered plainly illegal before, but now nobody knows anymore” is likely to be a lot better defined that “still plainly illegal”. Moreover, Trump is much more likely to attempt the former than the latter—not because he actually cares about not doing the latter, but because anything he actually does has a tendency to be reclassified from latter to former. Including after the fact—e.g. many of his past actions were moved from the latter category to former one by the Supreme Court presidential immunity decision...