Manufacturing Delusion
How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You
Buck Sexton
A former CIA analyst draws on his experience combatting jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to show how citizens lose touch with reality.
Some of history’s greatest empires have devolved into genocidal lunacy—often with shocking compliance from their own people. What met...
The book was highlighted as a new bestseller that examines how the left uses propaganda, gaslighting, and manufactured delusions to manipulate public perception. It was promoted as essential reading for listeners interested in understanding media tactics.
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He's also the author of a new book. It's already a bestseller. I was looking it up this morning called Manufacturing Delusion. It's all about a topic we love on the Dan Bongino show, how the left uses...
— Episode: The Terror Threat at Home (Ep. 2468)
Episode: The Terror Threat at Home (Ep. 2468)
The book was highlighted as a new bestseller that examines how the left uses propaganda, gaslighting, and manufactured delusions to manipulate public perception. It was promoted as essential reading for listeners interested in understanding media tactics.
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He's also the author of a new book. It's already a bestseller. I was looking it up this morning called Manufacturing Delusion. It's all about a topic we love on the Dan Bongino show, how the left uses propaganda and indoctrination of bullshit the hell out of you.
Buck Sexton, author of the bestselling new book Manufacturing Delusion. Folks, go pick it up today.
The new book is called Manufacturing Delusion. Folks, go pick it up today.
The book was presented as a new release that explains how the left employs brainwashing, indoctrination and propaganda, and was described as an important and persuasive read.
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Buck Sexton is a former CIA officer and cohost of The Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton Show. He has a new book out called The Manufacturing Delusion. Manufacturing Delusion. How the left uses brainwashin...
— Episode: The Left's Brainwashing and the Nancy Gu...
Episode: The Left's Brainwashing and the Nancy Guthrie Case...
The book was presented as a new release that explains how the left employs brainwashing, indoctrination and propaganda, and was described as an important and persuasive read.
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Buck Sexton is a former CIA officer and cohost of The Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton Show. He has a new book out called The Manufacturing Delusion. Manufacturing Delusion. How the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against you. And it's out today. Go and get it right now. It's a great and it's an important read.
The name of his book out today is Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You.
The book was highlighted as an exposé of how the political left employed brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda to shape public opinion, with a chapter on "menticide" that examined the trans agenda. Buck Sexton shared insights from his CIA background, and both he and the hosts praised the work as meticulously researched, exceptionally written, and a tool to protect one's mind. They encouraged listeners to pre‑order the title, indicating strong endorsement.
Highly Recommended
Episode: Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Oct 28 2...
Buck stated that his book, titled "Manufacturing Delusion," was ready for pre-order and implied it was a smart choice for readers looking to get smarter.
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And mine is Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You.
So do us a solid and pre-order yours on Amazon today.
Episode: Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Feb 17 20...
The book was released and detailed how the political left uses tactics like brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda to reshape public thinking. Buck shared insights from his CIA-related experiences that informed several chapters, including one on 'menticide' which covered transgenderism and the trans agenda.
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Manufacturing Delusion is out. How the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against you.
I have a whole chapter in the book on what is called menticide. I didn't coin that phrase. A very formerly very well-known and prominent psychiatrist named Dr. Juice Mirlew coined the phrase, wrote a book called Rape of the Mind, where he goes into, it's really a step-by-step of how you break people down, how you decondition them, how you radicalize them, how you do all of these things. And the menticide chapter, I deal with transgenderism and the trans agenda.
Meticulously researched and exceptionally written. Manufacturing Delusion is more than a book. It's a tool to protect your mind and soul.
The hosts repeatedly highlighted the book as a newly released, chart‑rising expose on left‑wing propaganda, mind‑control tactics, and the author’s CIA and NYPD experiences, urging listeners to purchase the audiobook and print copies. Buck Sexton promoted it as a personal, research‑driven work that revealed previously untold stories, while Clay Travis and other guests echoed the recommendation and praised its relevance. Overall, the episode discussions positioned the title as a crucial tool for understanding political delusion.
Highly Recommended
Episode: Buck Brief - Trump Can't Allow the Mob to Win in M...
David Harsanyi's upcoming book was discussed, focusing on instigating political madness by looking at it through the lens of totalitarian history. It was described as a substantial book with research, not just ranting.
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Mine's coming out in a month by the way. Yeah? Oh really? I'm excited about that. What's it about? Uh, it's called manufacturing delusion about, it's about instigating political madness actually. And like looking at it through totalitarian history.
It's actually cool. Like you would, you as somebody who writes in as a writer, I think it'd be like, this is actually a book book. It's not like book saves America. And it's just me ranting. It's like, there's research. There's, there's cool stuff.
Episode: Hour 2 - Where is Nancy Guthrie?
The book, which Buck narrated himself for the audiobook, discussed his first CIA mission in Nigeria, his time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his work with the NYPD Intelligence Division. He argued that forces of the left and totalitarianism use mind control tactics similar to those taught to intelligence officers or used in cults for indoctrination.
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At Clay Suggestion, I just want to see if you'd go to our YouTube channel, I recorded the audiobook of Manufacturing Delusion myself. And it is also available for pre-order right now. The book comes out in two weeks, my friends. Feb 17. Two weeks. Manufacturing Delusion.
I talk in the beginning about my first CIA mission, which was to Nigeria, of all places, which you have not heard me talk about much here before on the show or at all, really. I've never talked about it on the air before.
Episode: Team 47 - Wars of the Future
Buck mentioned he writes about his time with GRS teams in Iraq and Afghanistan in this book. He stated that he wrote about GRS teams that took him out in Iraq and Afghanistan and that he did GRS movements off base.
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In my book, Manufacturing Delusion, which I've never talked about this before. I've never talked about the GRS teams that took me out in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's also reminding me of the old days when I was working in the intelligence division of the NYPD, which I write about, in manufacturing delusion.
Episode: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Feb 11 2026
The book was mentioned in the context of the author having been in Nigeria chasing the group that would become Boko Haram and checking out early radicalization in dangerous mosques. The hosts strongly urged listeners to buy this book because it was written by one of them and was considered very good.
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Nigeria is in the opening chapter of this book, Manufacturing Delusion, because I was there chasing the group that would become Boko Haram in the earliest days and checking out the radicalization that was involved, the mosques in parts of Nigeria where nobody goes because it's super dangerous. And yeah, I think you should get a copy of the book, my friends.
I need everyone listening to this show to buy this book. It's actually really good and I wrote it.
The book's release was mentioned, and the speaker expressed excitement to read it, noting that the author, being ex-CIA, likely provided serious insights rather than political fluff.
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I do want to give a special shout out to our friend Buck Sexton, whose book Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination and Propaganda Against You is out today, Tuesday.
I don't feel like this is going to be a political fluff book that he had to write for the hell of it. He is ex CIA. He has some really interesting insights.
Episode: Hour 3 - It's Hard to Hate the Guy
The book was released today and explored themes of propaganda, mind-control tactics, and ideological conditioning, drawing partly from the author's CIA experiences. Listeners were strongly encouraged to purchase the book, with some even demanding it for their children.
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Go buy Buck's book, Manufacturing Delusion. I have reviewed it on Amazon.
Among the reviews, a harrowing, brilliant, important read. Megyn Kelly. Terrifying. Brilliant. Essential. An ex-CIA officer's unmasking of totalitarian mind control. Glenn Beck.
Meticulously researched and exceptionally written. Manufacturing Delusion is more than a book. It's a tool to protect your mind and soul. Best-selling author. Jack Carr.
He threatened not to come home for spring break if I didn't get manufacturing delusion for him today.
The title of a fantastic book that is out today that all of you should go get a copy of.
Episode: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Feb 18 2026
The book was released the day before the broadcast and was immediately rocketing up the charts, leading to a head-to-head struggle for the number one spot against a book by John Meacham. It explores political madness, mass hysteria, and the tactics of mind control used by ideologies like the modern Democrat Party, covering topics from climate change and BLM to transgender issues.
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Manufacturing Delusion is my book. And it came out yesterday. And already, my friends, it is rocketing up the charts because of all of you. I am deeply gratified, grateful, and humbled.
I am in a head-to-head struggle with anti-Trump lunatic Meacham, who now used to write history books, now writes books about how Trump is destroying the Republic. So, yeah, we have to beat him.
It is about political madness. The Democrat Party, I would argue, has been seized by political madness for years now. They are, in fact, in the grips of continuous but shifting mass hysteria.
Also some cool CIA stories in there and stuff from the NYPD when I was there. So things I've never written about or talked about before, even if you've listened to me for 15 years, there are things in this book, some reminiscences that I have that you will have never heard or I've never talked about before.
And I'll talk to you a little bit about how it very much does tie into my book, manufacturing delusion, which like I said, neck and neck with that John Meecham book, right? We got to beat them guys. Help me out. Get a copy of manufacturing delusion.
Episode: Hour 1 - Manufacturing Mass Delusion
The book, which was released the previous day, was described as a deep dive into how mass hysteria and political manipulation have taken root inside the modern Democratic Party. It incorporated the author's CIA and NYPD experiences, including stories he had never shared before.
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Manufacturing Delusion is my book. And it came out yesterday and already, my friends, it is rocketing up the charts because of all of you.
I am in a head to head struggle with anti-Trump lunatic Meacham, who now used to write history books, now writes books about how Trump is destroying the Republic.
It is about political madness. The Democrat Party, I would argue, has been seized by political madness for years now.
This is why Manufacturing Delusion is such an important book, and I really need you to go get a copy of it today.
Also some cool CIA stories in there and stuff from the NYPD when I was there. So things I've never written about or talked about before.
Episode: Hour 2 - Menticide IS a Thing
The book discussed the phenomenon of mind control and how people are made to believe insane things, drawing comparisons to modern issues like transgender ideology and historical examples like the Soviet Union and Maoist China. Buck mentioned that he read the audiobook version himself, and strongly encouraged listeners to purchase it, aiming to outsell a book by John Meacham.
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This naturally transitions into broader commentary on political extremism, media groupthink, and the dangers of manufactured narratives--key themes Buck also addresses in his new book Manufacturing Delusion.
And I bring it up, one, because I do need you to go get a copy of the book if you have not yet.
The book is doing well so far. I'm very sanguine about these things. You know, there's probably some, you know, some children's book about like a non-binary polar bear that's going to, you know, rocket to the, whatever. The point is, for a political book, it's doing well, and we have to beat Meacham's book because he's a smug lib who trashes Trump on MSNBC.
And there's a chapter in the book, though, where I get into what I was talking about yesterday, which is menticide.
I finished your book already it's fantastic it reinforces some of the things i've thought about the the changes in the definition of words have occurred a lot in my 70 years example vaccine what you say is so so true thank you shields high
Episode: Hour 3 - Buck Explains Mind Control
The book was described as a great read about the future of mass delusion, mind control, and propaganda, which the author wrote over an 18-month research and writing process.
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I need you to keep buying your fantastic copies of Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda against You.
It is a great book. I wrote it. I wrote every word of it, and it is rocketing up the Amazon charts because of all of you.
This is from the concluding chapter, The Future of Mass Delusion. Of course, the book's about politics, about mass delusion, about mind control.
Episode: Buck Brief - Let's Talk Real Epstein Files Transpa...
The speaker announced that it was book publishing day and promoted his book, which he described as a cheeky rejoinder to a Noam Chomsky book about godless communism and hating America. The title was chosen after weeks of back and forth with editors, who initially suggested titles like "Two Plus Two Equals Five."
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Get your copy of Manufacturing Delusion. How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination and Propaganda Against You. Just manufacturing delusion for those who. And some have actually managed to figure out that it is a little bit of a cheeky rejoinder to a Noam Chomsky.
I did the audiobook myself. Yes, the audiobook. Yeah. So people can go and listen to if they prefer.
a kind of person I wasn't working directly with was like, what if we just called it two plus two equals five?
And then we went up. The point is we went all the way back to the original title after weeks of back and forth over titles.
Episode: Team 47 - MAHA Uncensored
The speaker, Buck, mentioned that he caught a typo in his own book, Manufacturing Delusion, while recording the audiobook, specifically when reading page eight.
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I caught it when I was doing the audiobook of Manufacturing Delusion, which you should all go download if you have not already.
That typo, I caught it when I was doing the audiobook of Manufacturing Delusion, which you should all go download if you have not already. Go get that audiobook.
That was the one typo that we weren't able to fix that I knew was there.
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