Hannah Arendt warned about the danger of presenting the lesser evil as something good.
Here’s one example:
A government restricts press freedom but claims it is for the protection of the people. The evil is reframed as “security”.
The Time Will Come
When a society keeps excluding, humiliating, and dispossessing people,
it creates exactly those it fears most:
those who no longer fear anything – because they have nothing left to lose.