Polarization and Political Violence

In this installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about whether the U.S. is a troubled democracy, the rise of anti-democratic attitudes, how to make politics more pleasant, the links between polarization and violence and much more.