By JOHN HARLOW | Editor-in-Chief
The looming inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump has prompted a rush of young worried people to join the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club—where they won’t be a silent minority for long.
Bigwigs such as Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, will be inviting questions about how the party lost the 2016 election at the club’s annual meeting at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club on Sunday, Jan. 22.
In past years, the guest speakers, including U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu and Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin, might have been received with rapt and respectful attention.
But young rising stars such as Aurelia Friedman, who at 22 will become the youngest member of the club board on Sunday, want some answers.
Photo courtesy of the Friedman family
“I want to know what went wrong, where we went wrong and how we can avoid getting it so badly wrong again,” she told the Palisadian-Post last week.
Friedman, who has been obsessed with public service since she was a member of Pacific Palisades Girl Scout Troop 128, organizing “plastic bag-free weekends” across the Palisades, said the party has to rethink what “inclusive” means.
“I worked at a phone bank to get the voters out, and we did not even phone anyone in Wisconsin or Michigan. We took those places for granted, and that was dumb,” she said.
But with driven young members such as UCLA graduate Friedman, there is a chance the Democratic Party will start to get smarter—starting on Sunday.
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