Party-wise support for executive orders When broken down in terms of party-wise support for executive orders, the survey found 38 percent of the (strong) Democrats favoring use of the orders to make policy changes for the pandemic and social justice issues. In the case of the (strong) Republicans, it was only nine percent. Among the Independents, 43 percent backed the idea of using executive orders to bring in policy changes for climate change as against 25 percent Dems wanting the same. In the GOP camp, it was again as low as nine percent. However, it was interesting to see that the Democrats, Republicans and Independents were okay with executive orders on foreign affairs, with all three having at least 19 percent support for the same.