delusion

The good news is a swipe left or the word "no" punctuated with a laugh will relieve them of this delusion.

This, maybe, is a measure of my own delusion—I can’t bring myself to rise every morning if I think it’s all a wash.

But it’s the delusion and mendacity on display at Giuliani’s press conference that have more powerfully shaped American political culture.

Maybe it’s cause matchmaking the Chalamets with fans feels forced like a stan Twitter, parasocial delusion.

But these responses are best understood as symptoms of our national neurotic delusion: the delusion that no one can really be that evil; the delusion that our system will prevent him from doing what he says he will do; the delusion that sociopaths don’t really exist.