Heck, forget Phantom Menace, he forfeited any moral sense the moment he decided that the so-called “heroes” be based on the Vietcong while the so-called “villains” are basically American soldiers, all in an attempt to flip the bird at our involvement (and what makes it worse is that the first film was released around the time the Boat People were fleeing, many Vietnamese refugees arrived in California, the whole reeducation camps in Vietnam were being reported on, and then there’s the whole Khmer Rouge business that was all the rage in 1977, meaning by that time, he obviously should have known better than to base the Rebels on such an awful group, or to make us the bad guys.).
And honestly, even though Disney is largely responsible for the many screw-ups in Star Wars via Rebels, the Aftermath Trilogy, Battlefront II, and The Force Awakens, among others, I STILL blame George Lucas for what ultimately transpired, and his sale was all so he could ensure he was tax exempt by 2013 should Romney be elected to office in anticipation of higher taxes, and this is DESPITE making clear he was an Occupy Wall Street type of person.