General Discussion

...please articulate the strategy behind doing nothing. This isn't a snarky question. I mean it. Many in Dem leadership see this as the correct option at this time. But, I don't know the strategy behind it.

I get the do-nothing behavior up to a point. With the GOP in the majority in the House and Senate, and also in control of he WH and SCOTUS, the Dems are essentially powerless to force any "official" undoing of any of the destruction that's happening. We have no bargaining power whatsoever. The 60-vote threshold in the Senate to invoke cloture is about the only tool available to us now, and even that can be turned off by Repubs with a simple majority vote.

Consequently, some Dems feel the right thing to do is let the Trump agenda play out - since we kind of have little choice anyway - in the hopes that it will so hurt the country and alienate so many voters that Repubs will lose big in the next few years of elections. Do-nothing Dems seem to feel that protesting loudly and engaging in any obstruction or loud activism is just tilting at windmills and that it could have the effect of making us look like a bunch of whiners, losers and weaklings in the eyes of the electorate.

If this is so, then what is the endgame? Or even the "mid"-game, to coin a term?