Analysis: How Trump's Deceptive Framing of Social Security Cuts Gained Retiree Support
By
W. A. Lawrence
Summary
This article argues that former President Donald Trump successfully undermined Social Security through a deceptive political strategy — framing cuts as benefits or gifts to retirees, which led many of the same people who would be affected to support him. It contrasts this with the historical failure of previous open attempts to dismantle the program over 60 years, and draws on imagery from the Great Depression (Dorothea Lange's photography) to highlight what Social Security was originally created to prevent: old-age poverty.
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bskyAnalysis: How Trump's Deceptive Framing of Social Security Cuts Gained Retiree Supportsubstack.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledFor sixty years, every open attempt to dismantle Social Security failed. Trump succeeded by calling the cut a gift.
The genius of the con: the retirees who put him in office thanked him for the cut still coming for their checks.
Before Social Security, old age too often ended in poverty, illness, dependence, and early death.
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