Their goal has been to gut the New Deal
and they have been working, non-stop, since FDR signed Social Security into law.
They have finally reached a point in time, where the majority of Americans have no fucking clue, or remembrance of how fucking horrid life was for the poor and middle-class in the 1920s.
America didn't just "willy-nilly" put together the New Deal.
Americans weren't just sitting around one day and say; "hey, why don't we give our elderly people a nice little entitlement."
No! Americans looked around and saw our elderly people, who built this fucking country, dying in the streets, being slammed into debtors prisons, being tossed aside like trash when the corporations didn't need them anymore, and being sent off to Poor Farms!
America looked at all that and said; "this cannot stand!"
Retrumplicans have been working to dismantle all of that since before the ink dried.