desirability. you give the answer you think is the politically correct answer, but not the one you might truly hold. if you use techniques to uncover what respend dents think public confidence is 7 to 25és points lower that is captured in the polls. it s also important to note that some of the drivers of public confidence maybe eroding. one of the big is connections. people those numbers are dwin dwindling. now the draft generation is passing. correct me if i m wrong, but support by republicans is more in decline than support by democrats of the military. do you attribute that to polarization and the way that now the military and claims of wokeness have become part of our political debate? yeah, it s still the case that republicans on average have