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>There is strong continuity on foreign policy between administrations.

Again, I feel like you have to live in an alternate universe to think that there is much continuity on foreign policy between Trump and <insert Democrat here>. Or you have to be laser focused on one or two similarities and ignore the vast chasms of difference on everything else.

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It's true that we are in an era of change, but the Republicans are like the "id" of U.S. elites. Both parties regularly destroy entire countries. The Democrats mostly followed the Republican line on COVID after about 6 months. They are lagging, but they follow along.

There are a number of places where there are superficial differences, and those differences are important to people of color, trans people, etc, but the Dems are always looking for reasons to make a right turn. They track the Republicans who actively move right and create a small space a relative distance from their position.

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