What Trump and his lackeys are doing is illegal. The thing is, people get away with illegal things all the time. Being illegal is only a deterrent if there are consequences.
So it’s up to the people to show Congress that there will be electoral consequences in 2026 if they don’t do anything in 2025. The Presidential election is over, and it’s incredibly unlikely that enough representatives/senators would do their plain duty to convict the guy. The people have to let them know that if they don’t at least keep things happening within the rules, they won’t be back.
Protests are more visible to the media, so they keep up the morale of the resistance, but it’s every bit as important to write, call, and otherwise contact your representatives in DC to let them know this is NOT OK. Be polite, but firm.
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Wait, no, he might take that deal and doom the rest of us to his bullshit for generations.