Manufacturing Delusion – Mind Control, Media & The Battle for Reality
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 3, Sean Hannity is joined by Buck Sexton for a deep dive into Sexton’s new book Manufacturing Delusion, examining how propaganda, indoctrination, and psychological conditioning have shaped societies throughout history. Drawing from Sexton’s background as a former CIA analyst, the conversation explores Soviet mind control tactics, Maoist “thought reform,” radical Islamist indoctrination, and how totalitarian movements break down identity before rebuilding it around ideology.
Hannity connects those historical examples to modern America, questioning whether elements of mass persuasion, cultural pressure, and institutional messaging are influencing public debate today. The discussion expands into campus culture, social conformity, forced narratives, and the power of repetition in shaping belief systems.
The hour also includes reflections on the five-year anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s passing, audience calls on voter ID and public policy, and broader commentary on personal responsibility and freedom. It’s a thought-provoking final hour focused on defending truth, resisting manufactured narratives, and preserving individual liberty.
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| 0:11.0 | Sean, if you want to join us. |
| 0:14.5 | Joining us now, Buck Sexton. |
| 0:17.4 | Now, he is the co-host of the Clay and Buck Show, the Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, very, very successful. |
| 0:25.6 | What you may not know or remember about him, and you should, he's a former CIA analyst, and he's written a new book. |
| 0:34.6 | It's called Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda |
| 0:41.0 | Against You. |
| 0:42.7 | And he draws on that experience the years that he was in the CIA, you know, in combating |
| 0:48.9 | at the time jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to do this. |
| 0:55.1 | Now, I'm fascinated with this topic. |
| 0:58.2 | Years and years ago, I read, it wasn't a book, it was like, I don't know, like a 20-page, |
| 1:04.9 | 30-page leaflet, a history of Russian mind control techniques. |
| 1:09.7 | And if you think back throughout history and you look at, you know, how is it that, |
| 1:14.5 | you know, people, entire populations can be indoctrinated by radicalism. |
| 1:20.2 | You can see it, for example, videos of Hitler speaking to large crowds in Germany |
| 1:27.0 | and indoctrinating and brainwashing people to |
| 1:30.5 | go out and kill their fellow human beings. |
| 1:33.9 | It's mind numbing. |
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