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

Didn’t Palpatine create the fear to get the people to beg him to take full control with the belief that that was the only way to defeat the fear?  And he took full control reluctantly(fake) and then started to change the systems and laws?