I think a lot of the right wing's spiral in the last 20 years can be explained by them replacing everything enjoyable with "getting mad", and that this is less a chart of Republicans drinking and more a chart of them not socializing as much anymore
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So, it's up to me to support the beer and spirits industries.
aug 13, 2025, 7:26 pm • 2 0 • view
This is just one data point but I'm inclined to think that there's a cohort that drinks alone at home and lies in their responses. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MRTSS...
aug 13, 2025, 3:39 pm • 42 2 • view
No need to lie if alcohol-using Republicans and independents are less likely to respond to surveys. Survey response rates are super low and weighting can't correct fully for them.
aug 13, 2025, 3:46 pm • 10 1 • view
I think this is underrated. Polls as a tool have had a gargantuan problem since ~2010 but people want surveys to still have information in them.
aug 14, 2025, 2:22 am • 3 0 • view
Why would anyone want to drink with Republicans they're all fucking assholes.
aug 14, 2025, 3:55 am • 3 0 • view
Or, they've gone straight to ketamine.
aug 14, 2025, 2:32 am • 7 0 • view
Democrats getting booze in the national divorce?
aug 15, 2025, 1:35 am • 2 0 • view
probably also a sign of america aging
aug 13, 2025, 3:39 pm • 53 1 • view
Social drinking and malignant moaning don’t mix
aug 13, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
maga doesn’t want nice things or drinking and socializing with a better crowd. maga wants everyone else to suffer. the bigger you get mad the better.
aug 14, 2025, 3:30 am • 2 0 • view
One of the reasons the right has become so vulgar and open in its badness, I’m not gonna act like all this wasn’t already festering inside the wing, is the same reason the most inwardly angry guy you’ve met gets kicked out of bars for fighting every week
aug 13, 2025, 3:35 pm • 10 1 • view
That data also looks like dogshit - the swing in dem drinking (+12%, -15%, + 10%) around 2010 is probably highly statistically improbable at -best-
aug 13, 2025, 6:28 pm • 7 0 • view
It was the Farm bill of 2018 that led to less drinking.
aug 14, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Pretty sure they lost it and abandoned decorum after a black man was elected
aug 14, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Also keep in mind that drinking even a single bud lite turned them into trans democrats, so that shifted things quite a bit
aug 13, 2025, 3:34 pm • 32 2 • view
I was in a small town in Nevada earlier this year and someone ordered "one of those queer beers" and was served a bud lite.
aug 14, 2025, 2:23 am • 4 0 • view
Self isolation as well
aug 13, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Giving up alcohol is good overall.
aug 14, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Replacing it with intermectin isn't
aug 14, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe, but what he is saying is that this is in part proxying for a drop in socializing activities (e.g. parties/sporting events, etc.). Most people who drink are social drinkers. No social events, no drinking.
aug 14, 2025, 1:37 pm • 6 0 • view
But do we have any stats about Republicans socialising less?
aug 14, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view