100% Reliable. Bank on it. Prediction!

How will the GOP react to the results of the 2022 election?

Same way they react to EVERYTHING!: They will move further to the extreme right. And more insane.

This will happen if they win big. This will happen if they win small. This will happen if they lose big. This will happen if they lose small. And this will happen with every result between every possible outcome.

How do I know this? Look at every election since 1960. No exceptions. Every election, every trend, every national tragedy, or triumph, every news event and social trend somehow becomes a signal to Republican politicians that they need to move further to the right, discard decency and sanity. They double-down and then double-down again, it's an un-ending feedback loop that never moves even micrometer back towards the middle and what is considered "Centrist" itself moves rightward every news cycle.

Any political pundit who predicts any other result, is worthless.