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The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse.
Vox thinks doubling down on government spending and progressive taxation is the solution to the debt crisis. I agree. Give ICE 1,000x its current budget, start doling out subsidies to Bitcoin miners, and set a minimum 100% tax on privileged non-essential pseudobusinesses like Vox.