Let's Have a Bourbon Party | Opinion Ilya Shapiro , Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute On 2/16/21 at 7:30 AM EST Two weeks ago, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tweeted, "The Republican Party is no longer the 'wine and cheese' party. It's the beer and blue jeans party." That echoed Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) election night tweet that Republicans "are a working-class party now." Such a re-conceiving of the Party of Lincoln is a big mistake, and not in terms of policy or even ideology. Setting aside the category error of equating cheese with jeans, there are two serious problems with Jordan's framing.