The only book I read from this period was the one about princess Leia. And I wasn’t really a leftist at the time, but it seems like a very clear allegory to postwar Europe, or Reconstruction, because of the knowing inclusion of imperial sympathizers in the Senate and the feckless inability (perhaps intentional, but I don’t entirely remember) of their liberal institutions to root it out. By the end of the new republic, the reactionaries were openly displaying imperial artifacts and symbols in their offices and homes, just out of “curiosity” of course.

Episode 9 and somehow palpatine returning was the worst shit they ever could have written.___