Normalization pre-requires a crisis severe enough that a country's socio-political culture willingly accepts the imposition of communism as the "new normal."  The sheer size of the American economy requires a crisis on the order of a Cloward-Piven implosion (heretofore unprecedented, so far as I know) in order to collapse the economic and political infrastructure, and necessitate an open implementation of socialism just to stabilize the country.