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Have you ever seen Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield? He plays a character named Thorton Melon who returns to college later in life with his son. Thorton is filthy rich and ethically challenged. In order to pass a literature class, he must write a paper on the works of Kurt Vonnegut. So naturally, he hires Mr. Vonnegut himself to write the paper and complete the coursework. The pompous know noting egg headed professor proceeds to give the paper a failing grade and claims whoever wrote the paper knows nothing of Mr. Vonnegut's work. What is, is not necessarily what "is" in the world of art. It can be whatever the professor claims it to be. What he sees, what his vision "is" as informed by his own biases is what "is" real. Not the work of the author himself.

In a science - chemistry, engineering - you get something wrong it's evident. People die. Formulas are incorrect. Bridges collapse. In political "art", you can misinterpret Carl von Clausewitz all day long for years and still have a job. So, in that sense we can see varying degrees of terrorists. Some live in caves and spread terror in the name of Allah. Some live in comfy homes and drive posh cars but spread terror in the name of the state. So, we can declare a "difference" without there being a practical difference. But that doesn't matter in the works of art. It "is" all interpretive.

In short - the "science" has changed between the Trump administration and the Biden administration. And as we've learned by now, we must follow the "science".