bamboozlement

And then, again, this is the bamboozlement of Jesus.

He immediately exports the revolution back to Barbieland, where the ruling Barbies seem to melt immediately under the bamboozlement of the Kenaissance and its boys-only minifridges.

The promises of “transparency” were all bamboozlement.

As my friend Todd Gitlin once wrote, news coverage that treats politics as an insiders' game invites the public to become "cognoscenti of their own bamboozlement," which is strange.

Loki's broader lore commented on this very tendency in 2016 with Marvel's "Vote Loki" comic book series, a head-on commentary on Donald Trump's brazen lies and attention-getting bamboozlement during his first run for president.