Exploring the 'identity trap': Professor Yascha Mounk

What you are is not the whole story about who you are. Values rather than identity have always been the glue that holds democracies together. Before "woke" became a political slogan, professor Yascha Mounk warned about threats to democracy from dangerous polarization fed by identity politics. His criticism is usually aimed at the right. But he's increasingly concerned about some bad ideas created with good intentions by people mostly on the left that lock in victim mentality and deny that any two groups can truly understand each other. His new book offers a new way to talk about and tackle corrosive identity politics. It's called "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time."