Democrats don't have the direct power or votes to do a lot to stop President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress from enacting large parts of their agenda, as the nomination battles have shown — but they don't really need to block Trump to defeat him,

Democratic strategist James Carville suggested in an New York Times guest essay that members of his party make a "strategic political retreat" in response to Republicans.

Veteran political strategist James Carville says the Democrats need to step back and let President Trump and the Republicans fail. Democrats should “roll over and play dead” to allow Trump and his party’s actions to “crumble” beneath the weight of their contradictions,

Democratic strategist James Carville offers an unexpected strategy for his party in these early days of the Trump administration: "roll over and play dead." In his New York Times essay, Carville writes that it's futile to go "toe to toe" with the president at the moment.

James Carville has been a Democratic strategist for nearly 50 years and has a bold prediction for Donald Trump's second stint in The White House.