It has been the plan of the far right for a long, long time. They want to get rid of the FDR social safety net including Social Security, and to do that they need a time when America is broke and cannot pay the benefits. Capitalism is about the ruling class, always has been and will always be, as more and wealth gathers in fewer and fewer hands, for the rich to win votes they need America alienated and divided.
Cue Trump and his grandiosity.