Pre-script note: I could have just as easily titled this "Good People Who Do Bad Things"
If a scientist on the verge of single-handedly curing cancer happened to be found a pedophile, should we imprison him immediately or let him continue his work? If someone who negotiated lasting world peace were also a spousal abuser, would history remember him as a good person or bad person?
The latter scenario is a very clear example of the illusion of binary choice. "Good person" and "bad person" are basically meaningless constructs created by our minds to more easily compartmentalize and prioritize our opinions. It's the reason most movies with hero narratives feature a villain who is very clearly "bad." It's easier for us to understand a conflict when we have a binary rooting interest.
Establishing fallible public figures (especially politicians) as heroes or villains will almost always create inescapable paradoxes. For this reason, I prefer to espouse concepts and ideas rather than politicians. It saves the difficulty of having to answer for "but Trump . . .!" or "but what about Obamaaaa!" I have no personal affinity for President Trump (or really any other politician), but I happen to like his policy thus far. Many people have set President Trump and his staff in the place of binary evil villains. Void of ambiguity or innuendo, they find him entirely evil; a zero instead of a one.
This set up one of the aforementioned paradoxes subconsciously, consciously, or perhaps quite by accident in CNN's coverage of the Olympics. The result of establishing someone as a villain is that those who stand opposite him are seen as heroes. CNN has already villified Trump's Vice President Mike Pence so much that they found it natural to run this headline: "Kim Jong Un's Sister Is Stealing the Show at the Winter Olympics."
Because the "Head of the Propaganda Department" and sister of murderous dictator Kim Jong Un, Kim Yo Jong, set Mike Pence as the target of her disapproving gaze; CNN ran with the inference that she must be a hero. The logical result of an illogical process of making a complicated human into something wholly villainous is that another, no matter how heinous, need only stand opposite him to appear the hero.
This is why I have really no affinities or loyalties in the political arena. Some think the President should be a position for a role model, and maybe so; but President Trump is not my friend; President Obama is not my friend; and any effort to select a politician by his likability and not the ideas he espouses is destined for failure.