🧩 BND Motif Index · M1371
Make him veto it
A side is urged to pass popular bills it knows will be vetoed or voted down, so the other side's refusal shows voters who stands in the way, then to run on it.
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- 7claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 4center shows it came up on
- 3claims retold online
⚠️ 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
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Don't hand him a win counter pair
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (5 left-leaning, 4 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"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)
- 📰 Republican party faces major losses in 2026 midterms 2026-11-05
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “And if Trump blocks everything and we are clear and united and relentless, we don't just do it once and go home. Then voters will see you fighting.” “But it should still be done - make him veto it” “Congress should pass a simple bill that raises the federal minimum wage. Make Donald Trump veto it.” “Dems need to get bill after bill on his desk and force him to deny thing after thing.” “I want us to get to the work of passing legislation. Now, if Donald Trump vetoes that, that's on him.” “let Donald Trump and the Republicans be the ones to block it” “Make him go on the record opposing things that improve people’s lives.” “Make him veto popular policies!” “Make him veto widely popular legislation and hang that on every Republican who failed to stand when they were needed.” “Make Trump justify the veto” “pass that through the House, you pass that through the Senate, and let Trump veto it.” “That includes passing lots of legislation that Trump will veto, and then campaign on those veto’s.”
🧶 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 4
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-08 “Democrats should pass simple bills to force Trump to veto them and explain his opposition.” 3
- 2026-11-07 “Democrats intend to reverse Trump administration decisions regarding Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies.” 2
- 2026-11-06 “Republicans will lose the White House in 2028 if they fight Democrats on popular issues.” 2
- 2026-11-06 “Democrats should pass Medicare for All to force Trump to be the one blocking universal healthcare.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 3
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-09 “Democrats are urged to use their mandate against Trump: pass popular bills he must veto, and investigate and prosecute his administration.”
- 2026-11-08 “Democrats should flood Donald Trump with progressive bills to force him to veto them and Republicans to block overrides, making them look like obstructionists.”
- 2026-11-01 “Democrats should pass popular bills knowing Donald Trump will veto them to make him look like the bad guy.”
M1371 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works