What’s scary is how many in this forum that Trump has bamboozled. I like to think that the vast majority of people on this forum are pretty well informed conservatives. If he has this many bamboozled here, how about the rest of the conservatives out there who don’t follow politics as closely but will be voting in the primaries?
Bamboozled, or a more modern term, punked.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral SentimentsIMHO the purpose of FR is to enable us to pool our “incredulity” so as to be less susceptible to “give[ing] credit to stories which [we ourselves will] afterwards [be] both ashamed and astonished that [we] could possibly think of believing.