Dmitri: The Man Financing a Political Counterrevolution

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim is joined by Dmitri Mehlhorn, a tech executive who has emerged as one of the most powerful financiers in the Democratic Party and a strategist who often takes direct aim, with millions of dollars, at the party's left flank. He was in the news this week for helping finance E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against Donald Trump. Mehlhorn and Grim discuss their competing views on political strategy, the best way to challenge Republicans, and the way forward for the party.

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0:00.0	I'm Ryan Grimm, welcome back to Deconstructed First, a big thank you to everybody who gave
0:07.5	last week during our little pledge drive very much.
0:10.6	Appreciate it.
0:11.6	Today we're going to be talking about the future of the Democratic Party and competing
0:14.5	ideas about how it ought to pitch itself to the country, what it should stand for, and
0:18.3	how it can best stand up to Trump and the mega movement around him.
0:21.4	Now for that conversation, we're going to be joined by Demetri Melhorn, who is a tech
0:25.4	executive and an advisor to LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman, but is also his own
0:29.8	man and Democratic politics and is one of those people in Washington that is influential
0:33.8	enough that when he gets talked about is just by one name, Demetri.
0:37.6	Demetri thinks this or Demetri is funding that and very often what Demetri is funding
0:43.5	is aimed at undermining the party's left flank in order to in his belief make the party
0:48.5	a more viable challenger to Republicans.
0:50.8	And so I wanted to have Demetri himself on so we could hear straight from him what he
0:54.8	thinks the party's approach should be in 2024.
0:58.0	Demetri, welcome to deconstruct it.
1:00.7	Ryan, it's a pleasure.
1:02.9	And just to make sure that nobody misses this, my sainted mother who is in her 80s loves
1:09.5	Ryan Grimm.
1:10.7	And if given the opportunity to choose who's right, she will always choose Ryan Grimm over
1:16.6	her own son.
1:17.6	Well, anybody with a mother that is that wonderful can't be all bad.
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