Rahm Emmanual was indeed initially in Obama's cabinet, but he didn't last a year. Perhaps his politics didn't fit with the tenor of that administration. To use

Rahm Emmanual was indeed initially in Obama's cabinet, but he didn't last a year. Perhaps his politics didn't fit with the tenor of that administration. To use that quote to set up an equivalence between the two administrations is beyond the pale. I think neither Democrats nor Republicans would say the two administrations are alike.