Former Vice President Kamala Harris made waves in Southern California last week — not for her policy proposals or leadership record, but for finally going on the attack against President Trump. The former 2024 Democrat nominee took the stage at the Leading Women Defined Summit in Orange County and called out what she called “unconstitutional threats” from the Trump administration, warning of a rising “fear” in the country.

That alone was enough to send her Hollywood backers into a frenzy.

“About damn time,” one anonymous Democrat mega-donor told Deadline after the speech, blasting Harris and other prominent Dems like Barack Obama for sitting on the sidelines too long while Trump’s agenda surged ahead.

Harris’s appearance came after weeks of media speculation about her future — would she make a political comeback in 2028 or retreat back to California and run for governor when Gavin Newsom steps aside? While Harris recently played coy on any gubernatorial ambitions, her sudden reemergence with pointed rhetoric suggests she’s eager to reinsert herself into national politics.

“There is a sense of fear that has been taking hold in our country,” Harris told the crowd. “We are seeing people stay quiet… organizations stay quiet… those who are capitulating to clearly unconstitutional threats.”

But one Democratic donor insisted the crowd’s reaction wasn’t just about Trump — it was about desperation. “We’ve been feeling disillusioned,” the donor said, “but now that Trump’s Project 2025 measures are hitting Americans hard, maybe the tide is turning.”

Another added, “More of that. More Cory Booker. More Harris. More Bernie. Finally, someone’s fighting back!”

Of course, not everyone in Tinseltown was impressed. One unnamed producer reportedly dismissed the speech altogether, saying “no one wants to hear from her” and that Harris should “just go away.”

While Harris’s remarks may have electrified the glitterati in the room, the broader electorate is less enamored. Since her crushing defeat to Trump in 2024, Harris has stayed mostly under the radar, her political brand battered by failed messaging, a lack of grassroots energy, and a lingering sense that she was handed the VP job more for identity than for competence.

Even now, as she calls for courage and frames herself as a fighter for democracy, her party is deeply fractured, scrambling for direction in the wake of Trump’s second-term resurgence. Her attacks may win her renewed adoration from the cocktail circuit, but they don’t solve the Democrat Party’s ongoing leadership vacuum or repair its trust gap with working-class voters.

If anything, Harris’s new fiery tone only underscores how out-of-touch the elite donor class has become. Their calls for “more Booker, more Bernie, more Kamala” signal that their solution to Trump is… the same cast of characters who already lost.

But don’t expect Hollywood to change course anytime soon. For now, they’re back to writing checks and cheering anyone willing to throw a punch at Trump — even if that person is the very face of their party’s collapse just a few months ago.