delude

“It was the example of men like Darrow that caused the poor deluded wretch, J.B. McNamara, to believe that he could commit the crimes he did with safety to himself,” Ford said.

To make matters very slightly worse, some of the more deluded or imaginative of those left-wing thinkers have occasionally pretzeled themselves into optimism about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, basically on the stopped-clock theory.

Although some have deluded themselves into thinking the contrary, there will be no deus ex machina moment to stop this from happening.

They were just a useful punching bag for fascist leaders, who needed a hate object to dangle in front of their deluded supporters.

What's sad is that Trump and his allies don't even hide how much they think his voters are ignorant and deluded.