fool

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

Republicans who think they're safe because they play along are fooling themselves.

It's a direct substitution of fool's gold for the real thing.

Though he did not specify to the Times whether Simon’s gripe was with his scathing 2015 comments, Garfunkel admitted to the Times, “I was a fool.”

Parents are fooled into thinking their straight-A students are academic stars and stunned when they are rejected by selective universities.