Year in Review: What Republicans should learn from 2022

Published December 25, 2022 12:00am ET



The past year was supposed to be a Republican revival of sorts, yet it turned out to be an utter disappointment. Republicans barely clinched a House majority and failed to take back the Senate, even handing Democrats an extra seat in the upper chamber, despite President Joe Biden’s record low approval ratings, growing economic pain, a historic border crisis, and the Left’s continued lurch toward cultural insanity.

The questions Republicans must wrestle with as they head into a new year and the next election cycle is: What went wrong in 2022? And how do we make sure it never happens again?

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