I am still holding to the notion that very few people are truly Evil.
Here is the math:
"Evil" is a highly subjective property. Most of us feel that the genocide upon Jews was "evil", but there are still some who do not. Some who believe that Jewishness is in and of itself evil, that killing Jews reduces evil in the world.
Some people think socialism is evil while others decry the depredations of capitalism.
It seems like there is just no way to establish that a thing is objectively evil, when someone else will see that thing from the opposite perspective.
However, there is one thing that is common to all attributions of "evil": power. You cannot realistically call a thing genuinely "evil" unless there is an evident gross imbalance of power. Without the power metric, behavior is fundamentally benign.
Hence, if you observe an person or faction seeking power over others, assume that "evil" is afoot. In all cases of acquisiion of power,
somebody is going to cry "
evil!" You have to examine what you are seeing in order to assess the truth of the situation, but, generally speaking, if the trajectory leads toward increasing the imbalance of power, you should oppose that path.
I will not state that Individual-ONE is truly "evil", but his pursuit of more power is clearly a thing to oppose.
