The most pressing question is will US citizens continue to be ok with this - in other words, will this be normalized and become the status quo.

Recovery could be a matter of time and effort, even if things end up in a different place (better or worse).

But people seem to be willing to suspend their ethical, moral, even religious beliefs to make some sort of statement, and are apparently willing to pay for it.

So that's the thing, it doesn't make sense to talk about a "recovery" if this is simply the end goal people want.