Democrats have not capitulated to Trump, which is the false narrative of the media. But there has been a dramatic change in strategy. Trump has been telegraphing his fascist intentions for so long that blue state governors and an army of interest groups and lawyers have been preparing extremely specific plans, legal moves, etc. to deploy instantly as soon as Trump moves on his plans. They see no need to be as idiotically transparent about their plans as Trump's ego forces him to be. To use the vernacular, they're making sure that he has plenty of rope.