Personally, I doubt results in economics are as apparent as the result of war. The economy is way more complicated and its too easy to find plausible scapegoats, i.e. its greed and supply chains causing inflation.

Covid is the WMD of the inflation narrative, but unlike a WMD we can't as definitively prove the theory is wrong.

My suspicion is the normative left doubles down on intervention being necessary going from one WMD (covid) to another (supply chain), and another (a random uptick in greed), and another (monopolies).