But we nonetheless ought to make an effort to understand the people duped by a master manipulator/con man. To begin, the Christian Nationalist leadership is 'using' Trump for their own ends to destroy the democratic mode of government that has produced our 'decadent' society.
More than duped; brainwashed.
Echos of Steven Hassan session with Lucid on cults.
To dupe- to deceive someone usually by making them do something they did not intend to do.
"Stupefied" applies too, don't you think?
But we nonetheless ought to make an effort to understand the people duped by a master manipulator/con man. To begin, the Christian Nationalist leadership is 'using' Trump for their own ends to destroy the democratic mode of government that has produced our 'decadent' society.