Anyone else get ideas they didn't act on that they should've

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I had an idea for a book a while ago where the two party system had completely broken in the US do to political turmoil. One aspect of the book was that churches were now officially sponsored by political parties, so there was stuff like "The Republican Church of Christ" or "The Democratic Party Congregation" etc. The book centered on 4channers who invented their own political party and religion and were gaining massive support. I abandoned the idea very quickly because I wasn't able to create a coherent narrative beyond my basic ideas, I wasn't very experienced as a writer, and I just thought the use of le ebin internet mee-mees would have just been cringey. It just stayed as an idea I never acted on, but I'm realizing now that if I had written and released this book, I'd be admired for my premonitions of the alt-right and all the kek garbage. But if I tried writing it now, it would just seem like piggybacking off this shit and I'd look even worse.
Anyone else have experiences like this? Where you realized that certain crummy ideas you had in the past actually would have been well received, but it's too late now?