Woah!

That was a long "yes."

(*as an aside, our argument over New Deal was always, as you took a whole 2 seconds to note, as a response to economic crisis. Not whether aspects of it proved fortuitous on a war then a decade in the offing)

With the idea that we would of "certainly" (your word) come out of the Depression "ok" without direct government interdiction, mobilization, and the hands on involvement firmly established, I have a follow up. Would we have come out "ok" on the other end of WWII without direct government interdiction? Meaning had on December 8th 1941 (or even the 10th, when Germany declared against us) we set upon an isolationist/pacifist course as a nation, would things have "certainly" turned out alright?