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The very first sentence in your meme literally has these words in this order:
"Democrats like Joe Biden are the same as Republicans"
And by the criteria used for the study, their attitudes and values don't substantially differ. That's the point of the article, and is a distinctly different statement than "both sides are the same" - because there is a spectrum of folks on that "side" as I outlined in another reply.
Here is the article shown in the meme: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/biden-moderate-democrats-republicans-conservative-study-john-kasich-aoc-a9699431.html
Here is a snippet of that article:
And here is the table they are referring to in that quote:
Also thank you for not making a deal out of my typo, which I will now go correct.