Buck Sexton: “Menticide” in America

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Words like “mind control” and “brainwashing” get tossed around, but it is a very real science and a very dangerous game that former CIA operative and now conservative talk show host Buck Sexton calls by its scientific name of “menticide,” the murder of the mind. Psychological attacks are real, and the concept of menticide dates to a Dutch psychologist who studied how totalitarian governments control the thoughts of their populations. Joost Meerloo witnessed and studied the way Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong used the insights from Pavlov’s experiments on dogs against people. His most famous work is called The Rape of the Mind.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably
0:16.0	done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.
0:22.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:31.6	and we're going to try to go further.
0:34.6	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.
0:38.3	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.3	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down., we have cable news, podcast, streaming news, social media.
0:56.0	It's an information overload.
0:58.1	But is something else going on here?
0:59.9	Are we being subject to psychological attack?
1:03.2	Is this what we were warned about a long time ago, the murder of the mind?
1:08.9	We're going to discuss that today with our very special guest, Buck Sexton.
1:12.6	You know him as a radio talk show host and a famous commentator, but he's also a former CIA
1:18.9	officer, and he has a terrific new book called Manufacturing Delusion, which is destined for
1:24.7	the top of the bestseller list.
1:26.0	And we're going to have a conversation with him today on that.
1:28.9	Eric Eggers is the co-host of this program.
1:30.8	As always, Eric, how are you?
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