I know perfectly well that Trump didn’t run in 2000.
It was a counter-factual fantasy.....
In 2000 we got a choice between John McVain and George W. Bush, with Alan Keyes and Steve Forbes never able to get traction.
I’d simply like to go back to 2000 and have a do-over with the Donald Trump of 2016.
The implication was that Wolfowitz never would have gotten into a high position in the Pentagon, and many many other things might have gone better in the past 16 years. But who knows, historical what-ifs always involve a lot of guesswork... change one factor and many other things change, too.