Republicans Struggle to Find a Platform that Appeals to the Masses, But How Hard Are They Really Trying?

Social Security came into being in 1935, and thus every American alive today paid into the fund from the moment they entered the workplace until the moment they left.  Yet, as we’re seeing, the GOP believes that a tenable platform is simply this: let’s rip these people off.  Again, this isn’t some marginalized fringe group; it’s the entirety of the U.S. electorate.  If you’re a political strategist, does this seem like a good idea?

A progressive since a small boy, I’ve never liked Republicans.  I still remember distinctly my take as a nine-year-old on Barry Goldwater in ’64, and George Wallace, who got my grandfather’s vote four years later.  I was not impressed, putting it kindly.

Yet at that point, I understood that some folks, many of them older, might be drawn to more conservative values.  But what’s appealing about whacking the retirement plan that literally every American worker paid into?