NOPE ... see your tagline.
(To try and fail, that is glorious. To never try at all, that is ignominy, far worse than failure.)
Perot was the first modern populist. He was flawed and it wasn’t his time.
But he paved the way for Trump.
If Ross Perot had actually WANTED to be President, he would have gone to the Democrat National Committee and told them, in George Soros manner, that Slick be eliminated from the ticket and himself substituted, his own name on the ticket. But Perot, in his egomania, was not interested in the Presidency as such, but only in getting George H.W. Bush defeated.
The high cost of hurt feelings.
It might have been glorious, but it was the wrong fight in the wrong place. There was a way to make things truly competitive, but Perot did not choose that path.