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U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One after making remarks during the Navy 250 Celebration on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, at Norfolk International Airport on Sunday.

There are no accurate poll data to measure the effect of U.S. President Donald Trump’s rambling address, laced with invective and grievance, to 800 top military commanders. No reliable way to assess the impact on the future of the United States of the leftward drift of the Democratic Party, the pressures on the Federal Reserve, the struggle for control of American universities, the infusion of religious imagery in the rhetoric of the country’s politics, or the coarsening of the national conversation.

But in recent days there emerged a reliable assessment of the health of the

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