deluded

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

Or maybe, like Rogan, they are just deluded enough to think that Trump will shut up now that he got what he wanted.

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

In 2019, ahead of Trump's state visit to the UK, Lammy also posted that the then-president was "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic" and "no friend of Britain".

Maybe I’m just hardwired to say this as a Gen X-er, but it’s been exasperating to see that optimism harden among some boomers into a kind of deluded self-regard.