I think it's less asleep and more that he's getting ready to weathervane.
While you should -never- underestimate the ability of republicans to pull defeat from the jaws of victory, 2022 is looking to be a bloodbath for the democrats. 2020 was only 'won' because the establishment Republicans -hated- Trump enough to look the other way for election irregularities. Yet, despite this, the Republicans gained in the House and only narrowly lost the Senate. So the Democrats have a few problems.
1: They can't pull the same shit twice. Republican establishments don't have anywhere near the impetus to look away with Trump out, and Biden has ensured more than a few are scared and regretting helping him in the first place.
2: The democrats attempt to get around this failed in all particulars. The filibuster stands, the no court-packing, and Manchin (And probably at least a couple other democrats) refuse to budge on this.
3: State legislatures, now very republican controlled, have quietly been instituting policy. Mind, most of it kicks in past 2022. But it signals clear intent to actually look at the election.
4: Just as you can never underestimate Republican's ability to lose, you also can never overestimate Democrats ability to overplay their hand. Green New Deal 2.0, Beef Limits, war hawking the Middle East, just every single thing the Harris-Biden Administration has done has been a clear ndnicator to the voting base that the Democrats are nuts. Speaking of...
5: Republican VOTERS are... VERY riled up. They feel gyped and that the election was stolen. Meanwhile, Trump is down... Biden is in office... what can the Democrats hope to use to rile their base, in the absence of being able to obviously cheat again?