delude

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.

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.

There are still a shocking number of deluded and misguided folks out there who believe Trump won in 2020.

Let's not delude ourselves, we're looking at human extinction, the death of eight billion people, and there's no way that people will be able to survive in anything like an increase of 5º centigrade.