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Blame America first

The other side is said to hate the country it wants to run: it calls the nation evil or irredeemable, runs it down at every turn, and means to make it into something else.

🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Left wing archetypes🗂️ 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.

🎙️ Who it came up with

the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 0 center, 14 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard

  1. 🐘 Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 3 claims
  2. 🐘 Louder with Crowder 3 claims
  3. 🐘 PBD Podcast (podcast) 2 claims
  4. 🐘 The Benny Show 2 claims
  5. 🐘 The Mark Levin Show 2 claims
  6. 🐘 The Megyn Kelly Show 2 claims
  7. 🐘 Bannon's War Room 1 claim
  8. 🔀 Surrounded (Jubilee) 1 claim
  9. 🐘 The Dan Bongino Show 1 claim
  10. 🐘 The Jesse Kelly Show 1 claim
  11. 🐘 The Matt Walsh Show 1 claim
  12. 🫏 The MeidasTouch Podcast 1 claim
➕ 5 more shows

🎙️ 5 more shows

  1. 🐘 The Michael Berry Show 1 claim
  2. 🐘 The Tucker Carlson Show 1 claim
  3. 🫏 The Young Turks (podcast) 1 claim
  4. 🐘 Timcast IRL (podcast) 1 claim
  5. 🐘 Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words 1 claim

"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)

🗣️ In so many words

the words that carry it

💬 the tellers' own words: “an oft-repeated claim that El-Sayed said America "deserved" the 9/11 attacks” “and I kid you not, destroy the United States” “at the Constitution, at all the ties that have binded this country together, bit by bit chipping away.” “Democrats increasingly believe that the United States is evil, irredeemable, and therefore needs to be transformed” “Do you want Democrats opening our border and destroying America?” “the Democrat Party attacks Americanism. It attacks capitalism. It attacks real immigration laws” “the party that constantly undermines, denigrates, and wants to transform this place because it's just not good enough” “there are other elements in the Democrat Party that want to substantively change the United States” “They claim Texas when convenient, but they hate everything that Texas is actually about or historically has been about.” “They're trashing our Declaration of Independence... They want one party rule” “whether we want to be the United States of America or that France”

🧶 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 4

claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one

  • 2026-11-06 “Democrats intend to fundamentally change the structure of the American constitutional system.” 3
  • 2026-11-04 “Democrats are chipping away at the Constitution and the rule of law to allow illegal immigration.” 4
  • 2026-11-02 “Democrats claim Texas while hating everything Texas is actually about or historically has been about.” 2
  • 2026-11-01 “Democrats want to radically transform the United States into something else.” 3

Told on both sides 2

claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike

  • 2026-10-31 “Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court, open the borders, and destroy the United States.” 11
  • 2026-10-27 “The Democratic Party is attacking Americanism, capitalism, and the Constitution to achieve one-party rule.” 2

Fact-checked 1

claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link

  • 2026-11-03 “Abdul El-Sayed said America deserved the 9/11 attacks.” 🔎 Snopes

M1399 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-11-07 · what this is · how the index works