You need to stop thinking these parties make sense, both are pro science, both are anti-science. They're a random set of beliefs/agendas/policies that are not

You need to stop thinking these parties make sense, both are pro science, both are anti-science. They're a random set of beliefs/agendas/policies that are not coherent. For instance, before covid democrats were the party of the anti-vaxxers. They don't represent the majority - their membership and approval has been declining. They're about power and directing money to their constituents.