…I mean, I know “misaimed fandom” and “rooting for the empire” are tropes that do exist, and we see plenty of racist fascists like Star Trek unironically, for example, but for the life of me, I just don’t get this.
I mean the Galactic Empire is most blatantly a fascist, dystopian, autocratic, xenophobic, opressive, elitist, tyrannical, genocidal regime that exists only to benefit those in power. It was voted into power by ignorant and fearful citizens. It runs on a wartime economy, has borderline oligarchic corpos as the second most powerful groups there are (next to the Emperor himself), keeps its subjects under control through CONSTANT fearmongering and lies, strip-mines entire nature reserves by taking away their protection, declassified many sapient species/races as “non-sentient” for looking different and giving the Empire an excuse to abuse them, removed all “OSHA” directives in businesses to improve profits and productivity, promoted almost all of its higher-ranked personell based on blind fanaticism rather than any actual merit…
I mean, how in the actual HELL does any of this NOT scream “Trump administration”!? When most people IRL see the Galactic Empire as a warning, your own Emperor Trump is like “Write that down, write that down!”