tired: the empire did nothing wrong
inspired: the separatists (prequel trilogy) did nothing wrong

The claims in "official" star wars canon (aka propaganda) is that actually evil characters like palpatine were pulling the strings. But this is biased and often malicious exaggeration, not fundamentally different from how various movements and countries on earth often get branded as "neo-nazis", "CIA conspiracy", etc

Palpatine was a classic narcissistic con man out for power and definitely evil. He was clearly pulling strings and influencing the decisions first of the Republic then in full authoritarian mode as The Emperor. How is that an exaggeration?