Barely audible the past three months, Democrats seized the opportunity of Donald Trump's first 100-day review – and his sharp decline in popularity in the polls – to intensify their attacks, even as the reconfiguration of the party remains a subject of scattered debate.

Invisible since January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration, former Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first national speech on Wednesday, April 30, in San Francisco, at the gala of the Emerge America, an Association for the Promotion of Women in Politics she helped found 20 years ago. The former Attorney General of California, who has relocated to Los Angeles, applauded the courage of those who dared to oppose Trump's authoritarianism. She mentioned several Democrats, such as Corey Booker, the New Jersey representative who delivered a 25-hour speech in the Senate, or Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who embody the party's left wing and are campaigning in Republican states with their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. Trump's allies "are counting on the notion that if they make some people afraid, it will have a chilling effect on others," said the former vice president. "But what they are overlooking (...) is that fear is not the only thing that is contagious. Courage is contagious."

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