Two weeks into President Trump’s forceful return to office, progressives find themselves struggling to cope with his unprecedented shock-and-awe onslaught against the battlements they erected over the last four years.

Some vow resistance, and hold training camps to give themselves the tools. Some have turned to the courts, counting on judges to deliver reprieves from the blitz of executive orders and actions. 

Still others have sought to strengthen their mental health, fearing despair at the prospect of another four years.

Then there are those who sense an opportunity in cold, hard cash and like raving televangelists, they argue the way to political salvation is to give, give, give.

“We need your help,” Our Revolution, an outgrowth of Sen. Bernard Sanders’ presidential campaign, said in a fundraising email begging supporters to pony up money to be used to try to derail confirmation of Mr. Trump’s Cabinet picks.

Likewise with abortion rights groups, who said they needed money to pay for more security at clinics and for more lawyers to argue the lawsuits they figure to file during four years of Mr. Trump.

“That’s why we need your help. Now. Today. This hour,” the Feminist Majority Foundation said, adding that contributions are tax-deductible.

Grappling with Mr. Trump began in the hours after the November election, but the reality of Mr. Trump’s first weeks in office has exceeded what many liberals had feared.

Marc Elias, a campaign lawyer who has worked for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, told his followers he’s been inundated with questions about how everyday Trump resistors should react.

His ideas included supporting “independent media,” not holding Democrats to a higher standard and speaking out against Republicans at every chance, from social media to book clubs to family dinner tables.

Mr. Elias also told them to hold out hope.

“We are in for a long fight and must build and commit to an opposition movement that will stand the test of time,” he said. “We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time.”

That’s been tough, though, as each new Trump move renews the chorus of outrage.

Nowhere has Mr. Trump been more active than on immigration — and nobody is more actively resisting than immigration advocacy groups, who are holding training “field protection strategy” seminars for activists and know-your-rights sessions for immigrants who fear they may be targeted for deportation.

Some groups in the Los Angeles area, for example, have set up a hotline to report immigration arrests. Lawyers and activists will swoop in to investigate and see whether anything can be done.

Roots Action, one of the first groups to press for Mr. Trump’s impeachment the last go-around, is taking a boots-on-the-ground approach this year. Its RootsCamp promises to train progressive warriors to “fight to resist Trump’s agenda.”

“We can’t just sit back and watch,” Roots said.

For those more inclined to look inward, psychologists have flooded the internet with coping strategies, such as building “emotional intelligence.”

Just ahead of the inauguration, Time magazine’s website offered “science-backed” coping strategies for those experiencing increased anxiety.

They included exercise, performing acts of kindness, smiling at strangers and having a good cry — particularly when it’s shared with a friend.

“It might seem counterintuitive, but if you need to shed a few tears on Inauguration Day, it’s healthy to let them out with one caveat: You shouldn’t do it alone,” Time reported.

Time also said to use the new Trump administration as an inflection point and decide whether to “merely withstand” the next four years, or “treat them like an opportunity.”

Jeremy Shapiro, an adjunct assistant professor of psychological students at Case Western Reserve University, said “political distress” wasn’t much of an issue until the 2016 election.

Writing for The Conversation just after the inauguration, he said it’s a bipartisan issue — but one for which there isn’t much good research.

For now, he said, he’s advising his politically distressed clients to try to gain some perspective, and accept the wisdom of the Serenity Prayer, which urges to find the strength to change what can be changed and the ability to acknowledge what cannot.

And he advised them to limit consumption of political news.

“The vast majority of people’s lives will not be seriously and concretely damaged by the policies Trump is proposing, and yet many of them are living with painful levels of distress, based primarily on what they read and hear in the media,” he wrote.

But Mr. Trump is going to be tough to avoid for those on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat, invited psychologists to talk to lawmakers about how to cope with authoritarian behavior.

Punchbowl News, a website that reports on Congressional doings, said their advice included avoiding partisan mud-slinging.

• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.