We never do. He wasn’t speaking theoretically, the politics of the 1970s heavily influenced and inspired his writing. Trump is Bush Jr. is Reagan is Nixon. People asked at the time if the eponymous Clone Wars that Palpatine deliberately stokes and worsens to justify his own power grabs was inspired by the War on Terror; George Lucas responded that it was actually inspired by Vietnam.
To quote Lucas himself, it’s like poetry, it rhymes.
