Trump 'squandered' GOP’s decades-long master plan as key voters exit: Dan Rather
Veteran newsman Dan Rather believes President Donald Trump has blown up something Republicans spent generations building, and the bill is coming due right before the midterms.
In a Thursday post on his Substack newsletter, Steady, Rather wrote with his team that Trump has wasted the extraordinary advantages his party held when he returned to power and is now driving off the very voters Republicans have leaned on for decades.
Rather pointed out that the GOP entered 2025 controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, with a Supreme Court majority Trump helped stack and an economy he argued President Joe Biden had steered out of the pandemic in strong shape....
Oct 15, 2026