There’s a spring in Republican steps, a revived interest among conservatives in politics. For they can see a path to victory in 2022 and 2024.

This is a turnaround. After losing the presidency to Joe Biden and needlessly tossing away the Senate with Donald Trump’s wince-inducing interventions in Georgia’s runoff races, people on the Right shielded their eyes from the unpleasant glare of an all-blue Washington landscape.