🧩 BND Motif Index · M1332
Love it or leave it
Belonging is said to be earned by loving the country: those who won't embrace its freedoms and ways, or who want to overturn them, should be kept out or sent away, and the grateful newcomer proud to call himself one of us is held up as the model.
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 5right shows 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 5 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
- crossover
"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 so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “'you can come from Kenya from another country, become a citizen, run for Congress and then poo-poo this country, Ilhan Omar, and have those same rights and privileges now as a citizen'” “deport people that hate this country” “do you like the United States or do you want to kill another American political figure? Oh, you do? Out.” “don't wrap their arms around the freedom that this country provides ... they shouldn't be here” “if those are your views. Get the hell out of here” “people who cannot be patriotic to this country, people who are on the far left and want revolution, should not be let in” “they're so grateful to be an American”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-03 “The United States should be able to deport people who call for the destruction of the country.” 2
- 2026-11-02 “Ilhan Omar came from Kenya to the United States and now disparages the country she became a citizen of.” 2
- 2026-10-29 “People who come to the country without embracing its freedoms, or who cannot be patriotic and want revolution, should not be let in.” 1
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-05 “Angie Nixon is a self-described socialist who does not belong in America.” 2
M1332 · first seen 2026-10-30 · last 2026-11-03 · what this is · how the index works