Actually, there are virtually no Democrats taking the kind of actions we're seeing from GOP leaders and down-ballot candidates.  Mr. Trump's campaign is very rapidly sinking and, almost daily, he punches another hole in the hull.  Sensible candidates are swimming away as rapidly as possible so they don't get "sucked down" with it.  BTW: You say "malingering"....I think you really mean "maligning".....  Actually,Mr. Trump was nominated by the Republican Party so, by definition the GOP is (increasingly WAS) his base.  To be sure that base is evaporating as more and more Republicans realize just what a disaster Mr. Trump would be as a President.  

The Trump campaign would, indeed, like to hijack the term "We The People".  However, that's not going to work.  The phrase, the biggining of the Preamble to the Constitution, belongs to all of us...it's a central concept of American Democracy.  The effort is to take a very Inclusive concept and change it to an Exclusive one.."ain't gonna work"