Plus, if you “love democracy” like Palpatine, you can’t help but consider that all of these Senators were voted into power by their constituents. In other words, these were the best leaders that the various planets could put forth, ones that everyone trusted to speak for them and protect them. I don’t want to callously say that every single person in the Old Republic deserved the tyranny of Palpatine’s evil, but they happily voted for the people who gave that evil a position of permanent power.
But the institution as a whole absolutely deserved its grim fate…as Luke Skywalker rightfully argues in The Last Jedi, the galaxy’s Force-powered defenders were failures who allowed the rise of a horrific tyrant.
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