Many of the organizations that previously worked to hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s first term are now seeking financial support for a repeat effort but are encountering a tepid response. This follows Vice President Kamala Harris’s inability to defeat Trump, despite having a $1 billion campaign war chest.

According to The New York Times, Organizations such as the ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and Center for Biological Diversity are prepared to launch legal challenges against Trump’s second administration starting from day one, similar to the numerous lawsuits filed during his first term. However, the leaders of these nonprofits are struggling to secure the funding needed to execute their ambitious resistance plans.

Among the groups that fought Trump during his first term, Center for Biological Diversity executive director Kieran Suckling told The Times her organization wants to hire 12 new lawyers to bankroll legal challenges to Trump’s proposed policies.

However, despite donor burnout and competition with the Harris campaign, the funding may eventually come but not at levels needed to accomplish the Left’s goals.

Leftist political nonprofits have traditionally relied on funding from George Soros’ grantmaking network, according to the Open Society Foundations’ grant database. In 2023, Soros handed control of his philanthropic empire to his son, who has described himself as more political than his father.

Next week, The Times says, an allegedly powerful coalition of donors that channels hundreds of millions of dollars to regressive left organizations named the Democracy Alliance, will meet to plan funding for the next phase of the nonprofit-driven resistance against Trump. In 2017, the group published a resistance map to guide efforts opposing Trump’s agenda.

National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos told The New York Times: Thus far, we have not seen the same levels of giving we experienced as compared to this time in 2016. Center for Constitutional Rights executive director Vincent Warren also told the Gray Lady regarding donations: It’s not been a flood.

Regardless of the funding levels, the political Left has no intention of backing down. But it is very fitting that, since they’ve overstretched their hand, this is the price they’ll pay.

Because of the lack of successes during the Biden White House to try to legally prosecute Trump and many associated with him, donors to Leftist causes (rightly) have a large amount of fatigue along with skepticism that will hinder the Left’s revolutionary plans.