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Fall in line

Party members who balk at their leader are said to always fall back in line once he turns on them, so every rebellion is a tease: Republicans grumbling about Trump before the vote, then folding.

πŸ“œ PlotsπŸ—‚οΈ Leader-Follower DynamicsπŸ—‚οΈ Betrayal and Loyalty

⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

πŸͺœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

πŸͺœ rests on 🧩 Lapdog

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard

M1070 Β· first seen 2026-10-24 Β· what this is Β· how the index works