It was the same in the meltdown of ‘31 - ‘32. For a generation, capitalism was blamed and men like FDR, Rex Tugwell, Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins, and Harold Ickes stood at the “commanding heights” of US industry. Until struck down by the SCOTUS, there was a strict system of wage and price controls backed by the threat of incarceration.
Our flirtation with authoritarian socialism has been much tamer than it was in the 1930s and 40s.
You’re probably right. This will be our burden now none the less.
There will always be have-nots wanting to blame someone or something else and the Leftists needing desperately to exploit them.