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3. How The New Republic Failed - Aftermath, Bloodline
The problem with trying to start up a democratic government from the ruins of an entire generation of fascist indoctrination is that some folks in government, even the ones you insert yourself to replace the space Nazis, might have LIKED it the old way, or at best not know any other way to operate despite their best efforts.
Fascism is a hard habit to break without some hard deprogramming, as the Aftermath trilogy and the Leia focused Bloodline proved.
These stories proved that one of the last things you should ever do when trying to get out of a fascistic mindset in your government is to try and return to the system that was in place before that fascist system came to power. As we see in Bloodline and to a lesser extent in the Aftermath trilogy, Leia tries and fails time and again to get real change done, stopped at every turn by political squabbling, shortsightedness, or straight up enemies in the ranks of government. And when it came to light that Leia was the daughter of Darth freaking Vader, an already uphill political battle became downright Sisyphean.
Ultimately the New Republic failed because it tried to recreate the past system, and ignoring anyone who tried to suggest something new.