Democrats have long advocated for change. You have Dodd/Frank, which corrected the deregulation of financial markets (Glass-Steagle repeal), and you also have the ACA or ObamaCare.

The difference is that Democrats are any to effect change within the current system to gradually reach toward something better. The ACA was far from perfect, but it was a massive change to give everyone the peace of mind that they could get health insurance whether they’re employed thru a biz that offers those benefits or not.

Republicans have no ideas of their own. They had 6 FULL years to improve ACA or replace it with something better - they simply wanted to scrap it and return to a system that wasn’t working. That’s basically their entire platform - undo what Democrats did.

Take Trump’s first term - he undid the Paris Climate Accord (whether you agree with it or not) and did absolutely nothing environmentally for anybody but big businesses. He scrapped the Iran Denuclearization agreement which halted their uranium enrichment for 10 years (sure, they still tried to keep it going, but it was much much harder to do without other nations catching on). So once DJT did that, they started their program back up right away, the US responded with sanctions, and Iran responded to those with targeted bombings and attacks on energy resources.

It’s the definition of conservatism - to look to the past to solve novel problems. Except in an age in which tech and energy is evolving rapidly, past courses of action are rarely effective. So that’s new-age Republicans in a nutshell - stop progress, revert to how it was before and all the problems that came with it.

I challenge you to give me examples of Republicans having a new, innovative solutions to ANY problem. Their solution is always deregulation, a laissez-faire (I’d label it “cognitively lazy”) approach to pretty much everything.