The Trump administration’s new Dietary Guidelines finally got alcohol right, treating grown adults like grown adults with a science-based, common-sense approach to responsible drinking, and I thought about that for the first time last Saturday, standing over my grill with a cold beer in my hand.

Last weekend was the first real spring afternoon of the year. I’d fired up the grill to cook some burgers and opened a beer that had been chilling in the ice bucket. While my afternoon feast was sizzling, I recalled the Biden-era doctrine that one could call “Alcohol consumption for Dummies.” For years, the official line from the liberal Biden administrations had been two drinks for men, one for women, and not a drop more. Rules that, it turns out, were never really backed by solid science in the first place.

The new guidance, rolled out in January by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, drops those arbitrary numbers and simply urges people to drink responsibly. Dr. Mehmet Oz over at CMS even made the point that alcohol can be a “social lubricant,” that there’s something genuinely healthy about gathering with friends and safely enjoying yourself. Standing there flipping my burgers, I had to agree. This is what responsible adults have been doing at........

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