Does Social Issues matter when deciding your political affiliation?

[Mister Agenda]

I think it's a balance. I've been a libertarian, which you could describe as liberal on social issues and conservative (pre-Trump) on economic matters, but I've noticed that libertarians tend to vote Republican unless they're members of the Libertarian Party. I became a Democrat when the GQP lost their collective minds, but I had been drifting that way for a while as I let go of some of the more unrealistic libertarian economic ideas.

If you're all one way on social issues and all the other way on economic issues, it comes down to which is more important to you, or it could be like a Chinese menu, whether you have more items in the Democrat column or the Republican one.