Not really, the very idea of conservatism is based around not doing new things. Without passing judgement on whether or not that's a good policy standpoint, it's clear the parties are asymmetrical - one wants to pass new policies to change something , the other oppose that.

The GOP policy website this election was literally copy pasted from 2016 - it infamously contained references to how they need to change things the incumbent president did.

Republicans literally did not run a platform in the year 2020. They did not have one.

Democrats did.

It's easy to say "both sides" but the facts don't match that platitude.

>By this logic, the inverse is also true.

Except, it isn't.

in Obama's memoir, he recalls he and Biden trying to explain the policy merits of a bill to Mitch McConnell, who responds "You must be under the mistaken impression that I care”

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonmladd/status/13276522875195965...

It is actually true that in 2020 the RNC didn't even bother to adopt a new platform [1] but instead pledged fealty to Donald Trump and explicitly, in their own words, "reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration,as well as those espoused by the Democratic National Committee today".

In their own words they define themselves by their opposition to democrats.

[1] https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_202...