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.

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...

>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...