🧩 BND Motif Index · M1406
Dance with the one that brung you
A leader is said to turn on the supporters who carried him and court the people who always hated him, and the faithful take it as betrayal: you dance with the one that brung you.
📜 Plots🗂️ Leader-Follower Dynamics🗂️ Horserace🗂️ Betrayal and Loyalty
- 2claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Losing the base
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Live long enough to become the villain
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 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
"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: “getting in bed with people who fucking hate him and have hated him from the beginning and were the original never Trumpers as though that's what MAGA is... Trump hates himself, therefore he despises anyone who loves him” “The protesters accused Mamdani of betraying their cause by attending the vigil”
🧶 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 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-02 “Pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted an October 7th vigil to jeer Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him a traitor who betrayed their cause by attending it.” 1
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-01 “Trump is alienating his core supporters by running to people who have always hated him.” 1
M1406 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-10-07 · what this is · how the index works