GOP's secret weapon? Democrat overreach, foolish Democrat policies

The Republicans' fastest path back into their House and Senate majorities, then the White House is the Democrats' overreach. If there's anything more predictable than the Democrats' overreach, it hasn't been discovered yet. By the time Democrats notice that they've gone too far, it'll be too late to save their majorities. The Democrats' overreach this time partially comes from the Democrats' support for banning fracking. The driving forces behind the fracking ban movement are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Where these Democrats lead, other Democratic Socialists have followed. They've even dragged 'moderate' Joe Biden to the far left:
Climate justice activists say fracking contributes to climate change. Two of the most vocal anti-fracking members of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, introduced companion bills last year to end the practice nationwide. Ocasio-Cortez said in her release, "The science is clear: fracking is a leading contributor to our climate emergency. It is destroying our land. It is destroying our water and it is wreaking havoc on our communities’ health." In January, newly sworn-in President Joe Biden signed several executive orders that banned or halted fracking on federal lands. With the stroke of a pen, people from Louisiana to South Dakota to New Mexico saw their livelihoods canceled. While he has so far held his powder on the prohibition of fracking on non-federal lands (and the practice still goes on in Canonsburg), Biden’s statements that the climate crisis will be at the center of his policy-making has locals and business owners worried.
That's what Democrat overreach acts like. This is what happens after Democrats (predictably) overreact:
The media has reveled this year in the frequent, gleeful penning of obituaries for the Republican Party. The GOP is described as broken, fractured, befuddled about its identity, dying or already dead, not to mention up an unprintable creek, after corporate donors cut money following the Jan. 6 riot. Or maybe not. The obits are hard to square with a surprising new number from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s political team: $27.1 million. That’s the amount they tell me Mr. McCarthy single-handedly raked in during the first quarter of 2021. It’s the most money any Republican representative has ever raised in a quarter. It’s even more notable given it was accomplished mostly in two months: January was rough for Republicans. And it was done almost entirely without big-business support. Only about $450,000, or less than 2%, came from corporate political-action committees. How big is a $27.1 million quarter? Mr. McCarthy raised about $100 million over the entire previous two-year cycle, or an average of $12.5 million a quarter.
The best way to look at this is that each contribution is a vote. Another way of looking at these contributions is that they're a reflection of GOP voter enthusiasm. That enthusiasm might better be characterized as outrage over the US-Mexico border:

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