You may want to remember that when you join the Resistance if you look up to Leia Organa at all.

[He doubted she knew the truth about General Organa if she didn't make the Vader connection.]

Perhaps but no one else was Palpatine. It could be because he was a Sith Lord but even as Chancellor Palpatine had a unique ability to unite star systems and create a unified system people could depend on.

[He paused at the question, thoughtfully.]

It some ways, yes. He wasn't perfect, he did make several critical mistakes but he was one of a kind and I can't think of anyone who could have done what he did whether good or bad.

[Many in the First Order practically worshiped the Emperor but Hux wasn't one of them.]