Anakin didn´t want to impose a fascist government, the fascist government already existed before he fell to the darkside
I believe Anakin knows more about politics than what was shown in the movies but he isn´t a supporter of fascism, he fell into fascism just as he fell to the darkside. In fact that was the first blue print of his story in the OT which Lucas used to write Vader.
Lucas didn´t want to go deep in politics after the complaining in TPM, which was also the reason why Padme´s political role was reduced in AOTC and ROTS, she had scenes in which she contronfed Palpatine after the murder of her handmaiden and another one where she represented the Senators that didn´t support Palpatine´s extraordinary powers.
Anakin was trained in diplomacy by Obi-Wan, the Jedi order and Palpatine, it´s absurd for Anakin to be ignorant of politics, George showed his beliefs in simple terms but Anakin does understand the way the system works, his problem with the system isn´t democracy, his problem is that it´s got to a roadblock that doesn´t allow it to do anything of substance anymore, which was also true in TPM, that´s why Chancellor Valorum send Qui-Gon to Naboo as a personal favor because he was his friend, he knew there was no way the Senate would approve Jedi support for Naboo agaisn´t the trade federation. Anakin knew the Senate only seek to protect the interests of the Senate, which is what the Jedi actually do and what Anakin did in his first years as a Jedi padawan.
Anakin criticises the Senate inactivity over the situation of slavery in the outer rim as well as it´s inactivity over the crisis of Naboo and many other systems. He and Padme agree about it, they agree that the system doesn´t work, Padme wants to fix it but Anakin wants to change it.
Anakin supports changing the system so it acomplishes more instead of the eternal debates that don´t lead to anything, except keep things just as they are. Curiously enogh, having someone give their final decision over some matter is how the Jedi council sometimes gets to an agreetment which I believe it´s where Anakin got the idea.
In the real world the Supreme Court or lower federal courts rule on the constitutionality of actions (or inaction) by the Senate, or when the judiciary handles matters that are fundamentally legal rather than political.
Palpatine never talked to Anakin about fascism untile Anakin fell to the darkside, he only convinced him that his emergency powers were neccesary during the war to make decisions quickly and in fact as a jedi connection to the chancellor, his job was to keep the chancellor informed about the end of the war so he would officially leave his emergency powers. (His mission to spy the chancello for the Jedi Council was completely unnoficial, Anakin hated every moment of it and this was the first real moment in which he started to believe Palpatine the Jedi in fact wanted to take over the Republic to imposse their own governmet, which was Master Windu plan even if he saw it as a temporal thing until they chose another chancellor)
Anakin wasn´t the only one criticising the Republic, Padme in ROTS even says that maybe they have become the very evil they seek to stop, she says this because the Republic is actually acting like the Empire in actions if not in name. Anakin gets offended because he has been fighthing for months, losing his soldiers lives, to defeat the separatists and keep the republic together so what Padme said sounded like betrayal, he also refused to go outside official chanells to try to convince Palpatine to leave his emergency powers because Anakin tought correctly that wasn´t the legal way to do it but they were at a point where what was legal, no longer mattered but Anakin was send away while Palpatine was doing all of this so to Anakin eyes, while he understood Padme pov he also tought Palpatine was a good leader that would help end the war, he trusted Palpatine.
Anakin: You will not understand what I have to do to end the Clone War. You will try to stop me.
Obi-Wan: Anakin! Why?!
Anakin: I'm sorry. I have seen that it is the Jedi who will stand in the way of peace.
Anakin to Obi-Wan in TCW- MORTIS ARC
Anakin didn´t fall to the darkside to impose a fascist state instead of a republic, Anakin fell to the darkside because he wanted peace by any means neccesary after years of losing millions of lifes including his soldiers and citizens lifes that were lost where entire planets were destroyed by the separatist.
This is why Anakin´s eyes didn´t change of color while he was attacking the temple because he saw it as something horrible but neccesary so the Jedi didn´t revolt and started another civil war but his eyes did change when he attacked the separatists because for him they were responsible for all the chaos in the republic and didn´t care how much damage they did and so he enjoyed killing them, falling completely in the darkside.
In fact,even in during his psycotic break, Anakin still said he brought "Peace and Justice" to the "Empire" because he genuinely wanted to believe that´s what he did. Vader genuinely hoped the Empire would become something better than what the Republic was, he was wrong.
The death star only forced Vader to admit to himself this reality and after rediscovering Luke was alive, he was ready for open revolt agaisnt the Emperor even as a darksider.
I wish as a fandom we talked more about this side of Anakin´s fall to the darkside, in a way it´s also Lucas fault because he decided to erase many of the scenes that showed this but this doesn´t mean it wasn´t part of the story, a better government in the galaxy played a part almost as important as his wish to save Padme in Anakin´s fall to the darkside but it also played a part with his final decision to end the sith and the Empire reign over the galaxy.
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