Extraordinary circumstances, such as when the nation's entire production needs to be focused on a war, cannot really be successfully compared to what works best in peace time. You really can't argue with the track record. The US and freedom became the world's economic powerhouse. All the socialist nations fell apart or went nowhere (and killed untold millions of their own people either forcing them to stay or starving them to death). Given a choice between the misery of socialism and freedom, people risk their lives to gain freedom.
This is why no one takes the right wing seriously about economics or the law.
If we don't have a warfare-State economic paradigm, why do we have our alleged Wars on Crime, Drugs, Poverty, and Terror?
We don't have a Welfare-State, we have a Warfare-State. Yet, the right wing Only complains about social spending for the poor.