

Because if you aren’t the bad guys then they’re just essentially the low level stooges of the evil mastermind just doing mundane evil shit for no discernable reason.
Where as if you’re the bad guy they’re virtuous principled people just doing what’s right (allowing them to have complete dominion over the moral high ground)
This whole th8ng becomes way funnier when you realize that Trump doesn’t understand derstand mercator projections and thinks there’s a second America right off our coast nobody’s using.