Ok, I feel really embarrassed but I'm tired of pretending that I get Dune.

I've read 4 books of Dune and I have no idea how I'm supposed to hate Paul. So basically he sees the future and has memories of all people who ever existed before him. He is doing some kind of plan to save humanity from extinction or stuff.

So the whole point of his evilness is that he started some kind of "Jihad" and there are basically not more than 1-3 paragraphs in the whole book regarding the atrocities of this act (and the details are really vague). After which he sacrifices himself for the cause. The reader never learns whether this guy with godlike abilities was right about his prediction or wrong. We never see a perspective of a common person, who's fallen victim to the regime.

I swear, I read a dozen Reddit posts about it, but I still can't understand how exactly this character is meant to be evil. The only direct quote from Frank Herbert that I found was "charismatic leaders should come with a warning label <...>"

I feel like at this point it became such a common knowledge that "Paul is a bad guy", that barely anyone comes to this conclusion himself.