“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken
I understand the use of the word “crises” to define everything going on started with JFK.
Now everything in politics is a “crises” in need of fixing - with the requisite demand for higher and higher taxes.