To be honest austerity doesn't even feel like a real thing to me. I wasn't an adult in the era before it became bipartisan consensus in America, so what people call austerity just seems like the ambient state of things. To "end" austerity would feel much more like starting something new that didn't exist before rather than ending an intentional regime of denial. People's imaginations of what is politically possible have been so limited, even if you know better is possible it still doesn't feel real.