[astrange]

The bad guys in Baen published novels are just whoever the author doesn't like, usually anyone who isn't a Republican.

Though David Weber has his own pro-monarchy pro-libertarian ironically-not-racist thing going on, he just assigns random evil acts to random characters coincidentally named after his opponents, like having the Progressive Party actually be into human trafficking.

(When SF authors get old they all develop terrible opinions a while before anyone notices. Like Larry Niven wrote a book about the Green Party causing an ice age by stopping climate change and Arthur C Clarke became a pedophile. Heinlein, of course, started out that way.)

[dragonwriter]

> like having the Progressive Party actually be into human trafficking.

IIRC, the Party, per se, wasn't, though a leader of that party was an agent of an organization that was.