The Democrats are not the first political party to lick their wounds after an election defeat but 100 days into Donald Trump's administration, the stakes are high, and the party is still scrambling to find a united voice against a president they should, in theory, be firmly united in opposing.
Reeling from November’s loss, the Democratic party finds itself in a similar situation as the GOP over 30 years ago, which marked a major and successful regrouping of Republicans.
In 1992, incumbent President George H W Bush lost to Democrat Bill Clinton as the Republicans struggled to articulate a compelling message beyond Mr Bush’s foreign policy success.
What happened was the party rallied around Newt Gingrich’s 'Contract with America’ and moved to a history-making combative approach with media-savvy techniques.
This in turn led to the ‘Republican Revolution’ in 1994 - the first time Republicans took control of Congress in 40 years.
From the outset, a Democratic huddle is nowhere to be seen.
Instead, elected officials appear to be individually testing new messaging and exploring unconventional campaigning that worked so well for Mr Trump in the 2024 election.
Democrats take drastic measures to grab headlines
Even with easy opposition targets like the prospect of further price rises and empty shelves from the President’s tariff plan, breaking through Mr Trump’s dominant news agenda has been an enormous task.
Some have taken drastic measures to grab some much needed headlines and shock the Democratic party back to life.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker starved and dehydrated himself in preparation for a record marathon 25-hour protest speech on the senate floor to warn of a "grave and urgent" moment in US history.
It bagged him a few hours of coverage before Mr Trump steam-rolled in with his Liberation Day tariff announcements the following day.
Also attempting to grasp that national spotlight are Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy and Illinois Governor JB Prtizker.
Gov Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, has been calling out 'do-nothing' Democrats for failing to push back against Mr Trump in speeches that the New York Times said had people "ready to storm the political barricades against President Trump".
While Senator Murphy has channelled his frustration and anger through rallies and a barrage of media appearances, he has also taken FDR's 'fire-side chats' to the 21st century with lengthy live videos on Instagram where he sits in his kitchen with a cocktail to talk about the issues.
Democrats appeal to MAGA supporters on podcasts
Others have taken a page out of Donald Trump's book by appealing to MAGA supporters directly on male-dominated podcasts - a medium which was foreseen as being crucial in the 2024 presidential election by Mr Trump's youngest son, Barron.
Further casting himself as a more 'centrist' Democrat after giving Mr Trump a tarmac greeting in January, California Governor Newsom has launched a podcast where he attempts to find common ground with influential MAGA voices like Steve Bannon.
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Former transport secretary during the Biden Administration and possible presidential hopeful, Pete Buttigieg has found himself on the other side of the mic and even defended his move to do so on his Substack.
"I know that a podcast with an almost all-male viewership, which prides itself on rejecting political correctness and is sceptical of all things 'woke', represents an audience that might not be inclined to give my party the benefit of the doubt.
"That’s the point," he wrote.
"I’m under no illusions that every 'flagrant' viewer will see me once and suddenly agree with me politically … but I know how important it is to launch a different kind of conversation there.
"One thing that is clear from the last election is that my side of the aisle must examine not only what we have to say, but how and where we say it," he added.
Fiery rallies aim at Trump agenda
It is not just about new media, but old fashioned traditional campaigning.
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and Senator Bernie Sanders have been holding a series of fiery political rallies from Nebraska to California taking aim at the Trump agenda, in particular at a growing influence of billionaires and corporations in policies, and the role of Elon Musk and his efforts to cut federal spending.
But these traditional efforts have been panned by more traditionalist voices within the Democratic party.
Notably, the legendary Democratic strategist, James Carville, has called on the Democrats to "stay quiet" and said that the party would be better off if "people like Bernie Sanders and AOC" were no longer defining it.
Minority leader and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has also urged restraint and for the party to be selective with attacks.
Fighting between the old and new guard is nothing new but the problem is that it has received more airtime than resistance measures.
In an almost tit-for-tat, Senator Schumer felt the wrath of progressive Democrats like Rep Ocasio Cortez for siding with Republicans on a plan to avert a government shutdown.
However, what Senator Schumer and Mr Carville are missing is that Rep Ocasio Cortez and Senator Sanders may be on to something by targeting Mr Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.
It has already appeared to be a winning formula for the Democratic party, most notably during recent elections in Wisconsin for apposition on the state Supreme Court.
Rather than directly targeting Mr Trump during campaigning, Democrats made it a referendum on the world's richest man, who had pumped millions of dollars into the election in the hope a more conservative judge would be elected to the state court.
With an impressive turnout, the party ended up nibbling away at November's Republican vote in the battleground state and their focus on Mr Musk proved to be a successful election message against Republicans.
Unsure of the best way to confront Donald Trump and how to get the message right is a discussion which surely plays out at Democratic dinner tables across the country - just ask the Kennedys.
For Democratic royalty, the usually hushed infighting has spilled out onto the social media street.
JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg regularly hits out and trolls his relatives by accusing them for not doing enough to call out the Republican administration.
‘SLUETHS HELP ME’ he posted on Instagram as he learned his cousin Maria Shriver reached out to her cousin Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy JR to work on health policy.
Democratic party needs to be 'rebooted', says pollster
It appears that Democrats wants their party to do more too.
Democratic Party popularity hit an all-time low last month, according to a national NBC news poll.
The study also showed that almost two-thirds of Democrats want congressional Democrats to stick to their positions even if that risks sacrificing bipartisan progress, and just 32% want them to make legislative compromises with Mr Trump.
"With these numbers, the Democratic Party is not in need of a rebrand. It needs to be rebooted," Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey, told NBC News.
That being said, James Carville's advice to Democrats to lay low may be adhered to for some this summer, as it is coming to that time after the election when those juicy book scrambles come to fruition.
Hitting the bookshelves in the coming weeks are tell-all books revealing what happened behind the scenes during the Biden administration.
Dubbed an "unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden's run for re-election", 'Original Sin' from journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thomson is hotly anticipated, while 'Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House' was first out the traps.
The new books charting Joe Biden's downfall will no doubt be fodder for those downtrodden by 2024 as they try to pick themselves up for a Midterm election next year.
With 2025 nearly halfway through, if Democrats aim to match the strategic impact of the 'Republican Revolution' of 1994 in 2026, the decisions they make now and voices they choose to lead could prove critical.
