Robert Hayes makes the point that the Rebel Alliance is evil. Here is a taste, where he makes the point that the Ewoks were just hapless pawns of manipulative socialists.

In my world, there is a word for people who use trickery and deception to convince simple primitives of their own divinity, and then use that divine status to turn peaceful hunters into jihadists against a vastly superior foreign power that has never harmed them.

That word is "evil".