Yes. It would have been better in the short term. We have no idea where project 2025 would be if those things had happened. I suspect Trump doesn't get elected, and they manage to keep a lid on their plan until 2030 when they were actually ready, and held all the courts.
I haven't forgotten about GWB. I protested that shit in my 20's. Hell I'm using a sign that was made back then to protest the Iran war today. I don't think it would have been worse back then, I think we would have gotten complacent, the way we did when Obama was elected, and the establishment Dems would have done fuck all to stop the plan that the conservatives have been working on since their failed Business Plot. I think we got somewhat lucky that an idiot got placed in charge a bit too early.