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Your citation is based on a sketchy statistical interpretation based only each party’s platform. National party platforms are mostly irrelevant documents in the US, e.g., state party platforms regularly contradict them. See for example the Texas GOP platform from 2022 and 2020.

Two examples.

About twenty years ago they spearheaded modest-to-mediocre efforts at expanding Medicare; today, post-ACA, the party seems intent on an unprecedented degree of privatization and deregulation.

In 2002, GWB was able to mandate increased military smallpox vaccinations with little to no resistance; now almost all GOP party members are on the record as against any form of vaccination mandate (exception: Gov. DeWine of Ohio, who famously received hundreds of death threats from his own partisans over the issue).

I intentionally chose the tamest examples of a substantial platform change in the GOP over the past twenty years, but many more come to mind.

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Bill Clinton was a fan of deregulation and would be considered an "extreme far right" politician in today's "centrist" Democratic Party.

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Okay, but how is that relevant to the claim that the GOP has been static for the past twenty years?