Well, politically I may agree with you, but this was just as much a denial of reality, even if the motives and character defects that prompted it may have been entirely different, which does make it a slightly tangential example.
Nevertheless, reality was denied and came back to bite them on the arse, which may in itself be what makes it a tangential example seeing as reality has yet to bite Trump, Johnson and the other solipsists in the same way.
