The creepy exhibitionism of the horny right

When did Republicans become a bunch of digital trenchcoat flashers?

You may have noticed that Sydney Sweeney, a young celebrity actress, has an enormous base of fans who think she’s hot. This is how she has been presented in mainstream media for several years now, and this is how endless mobs of horny posters online talk about her as well. What you might not have noticed is that her appeal is almost completely non-partisan. This heat map tells the story:

If you compare Biden and Trump states, it turns out that Sweeney is actually slightly more popular in blue states (with an average score of 74.2) than red states (72.4) — but that’s an absurd way to tell the story. What this graph really shows us is that she’s extremely popular everywhere, with no significant preference mapping onto partisan alignment.