🧩 BND Motif Index · M1147
The grass isn't greener
Americans who left in protest at Trump are said to regret it abroad, poorer, mocked for their accents, missing the dryer and the dishwasher, and the regret is told as comeuppance: Matt Walsh's 'These liberal morons totally regret leaving Trump's America' and Victor Davis Hanson on the expatriates (Oct 2026); the stars who vowed in 2016 to move to Canada.
📜 Plots🗂️ Immigrant motifs🗂️ Things fall apart
- 1claim filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
⚠️ 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Mugged by reality
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Americans who fled to europe express regret over relocation 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-22
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Americans who left Trump's America for Britain regret it, finding a lower standard of living and mockery of their accent and culture.”
🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show
M1147 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works