Civic institutions in Trump’s America face difficult questions about whether they are still equipped to achieve their social missions without major adjustments to their thinking, strategy, and work. A growing number of activists today think civic institutions will be useless in the coming fight to defend a generation of social progress and protect society’s most vulnerable. If groups don’t undertake a process to radically evolve their political strategy, advocacy, and mobilization tools for this dangerous new world, they may be proven right.