roll over and play dead

The Democrats should also be very weary of James Carville’s advice to “roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular. Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat.”

For weeks, Democrats and other political observers have mulled advice put forward in the New York Times by veteran Democratic operative James Carville, who suggested that Democrats should “roll over and play dead” while Republicans “crumble beneath their own weight” and “make the American people miss us.”

What are your thoughts on James Carville telling the Democrats to "roll over and play dead" in his recent op-ed in the New York Times?

Carville said the Democrats should “roll over and play dead” and “allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”

While I still think I’ll be proven right over the long term, I may have underestimated the Murdochs’ reluctance to just roll over and play dead for the former president.