Both political parties have been employing a combination of neo-conservatism (i.e., the use of the military and foreign policy to control weak countries) and neo-liberalism (i.e., deregulation which makes the U.S. rich more power and which forces weak countries to open up their economies, thus allowing the U.S. and others to prey on them) since the Reagan administration in order to keep the petrodollar propped up and thus serve the interests of the rich. In return, the rich, which owns much of the U.S. economy, including industries ranging from pharma to food production to media, fund both parties, spending across the board, and the military industrial complex.
That's why Presidents who are supposed to be the opposite of each other, like Bush and Obama, are alike: they engaged in warmongering, bailed out the rich, promoted increased borrowing and spending to ensure "economic growth," and enabled provisions to the advantage of the rich, including people like Trump.
Equivocation is generally a smoke-screen. They are all part of the same swamp that serves Wall Street.