Complex sentence: Critics denounced him as a dictator, a demagogue, and a threat to the tranquility of the state while his supporters considered him to be a friend of the common man and one of the state's most outstanding governors.
Split into simpler sentences: Critics denounced him as a dictator, a demagogue, and a threat to the tranquility of the state. His supporters considered him to be a friend of the'common man' and one of the state's most outstanding governors.