So ordering the torture/murder of people is not 'all bad' because he subsequently went into mainstream politics. Well you have your opinion and I have mine...
I don't know why this 'binary' bollocks is creeping into the language but that is what it is, bollocks.
Most normal people 'struggle' with the concept of a mass murderer being anything else but a mass murderer. Happily he is now a dead mass murderer.