Although not a Democrat (nor a Republican) I've been wondering the same thing. So this article at RCP caught my eye this morning and I wanted to post it here to see if I could get some of your thoughts.

I pulled a few of her assertions out of the article for easy scanning - link to the story follows:

Glasser asserts:

Last Friday night, minutes after President Donald Trump announced the firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a purge of the military’s top lawyers, I received an e-mail from my cousin in Los Angeles. “Why are we not in the streets?” she wrote. “The Germans even marched against Musk. The French would have barricaded every government building.”

the opposition was receiving this counsel from James Carville in the Times: “Roll over and play dead.” (His actual words.)

Maybe the legendary strategist will once again prove his political genius with his advice to Democrats to do nothing and simply wait for Trump to screw everything up before, eventually, descending “like a pack of hyenas” and going for his “jugular.” In the meantime, however, Carville’s call for “strategic political retreat” sure seems like something a lot closer to unilateral disarmament.

Carville’s case for doing nothing, incidentally, is not merely some provocative outlier. I’ve heard many Democrats make versions of it privately since Trump’s victory in November. One friend joked that they should treat Trump’s attack on Washington like Napoleon’s march on Moscow, drawing the President and his party into an unwinnable fight. (Though, to be fair, the Russians had to burn down their own ancient capital before defeating the French invaders.) Like Carville, many justify their choice to do nothing with the argument that the “resistance” to Trump failed during his first term—a bizarre act of rewriting history that I have a hard time understanding.

https://archive.is/iEcNU#selection-1607.0-1607.666