Good point. And I’ll take it one step further...
It’s hard enough to be precise in stating one’s own position, especially when it is multifaceted - it’s doubly troubling when it is misrepresented through imputation by someone else.
I prefer it when folks state their own premises (”I believe such & so”) rather than “You believe this n that” (therefore you must believe ABC).
Agreed. It's much easier to state a simple yes/no proposition than a complex position.
The problem is that human motivations are rarely simple. Any attempts to understand the past accurately tend to devolve into "on the one hand, but then on the other hand" accounts, which sound like equivocation even when they aren't.
It boils down to the fact there has never been a political group, or a human for that matter, that was all bad OR all good.
Which doesn't means (here comes the "on the other hand") that the mix between good and evil isn't important.