Former President Donald Trump painted a positive picture of the future for Republicans during his first rally of 2022, held in Arizona on Jan. 15. “A great red wave is going to begin here in Arizona and is going to sweep across this country, and it’s going to wash hundreds and thousands of Democrat socialists out of office with an unstoppable surge of Republican patriots. And they’re going to be doing it, you’re going to be heading to the polls,” Trump said at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds, in Florence, Arizona, a Republican stronghold about 70 miles southeast of Phoenix. “This is the year we are going to take back the House, we are going to take back the Senate, and we are going to take back America. This is so important. This is maybe the most important election we’ve ever had. I do believe that 2024 will be even …