🧩 BND Motif Index · M1413
Basket of deplorables
The other side's voters are written off as racists and bigots who insult and threaten, often with a few decent ones set apart from the rest.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Part and whole🗂️ Bad faith
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
- 1claim 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Too stupid to understand
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 4 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: “Half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables” “I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA” “It’s why they’re MAGA in the first place. That, and racism.” “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.” “the Trump supporters were a basket of fucking deplorables” “there are good Republicans out there, but then there's these MAGAs who are just racist” “they call you names”
🧶 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 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-01 “MAGA Republicans are racist, unintelligent, and threaten people.” 3
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-01 “Hillary Clinton was correct that Trump supporters are a basket of deplorables.” 2
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-03 “MAGA supporters are stupid, racist, and too low-brow to realize Trump is a shallow simpleton focused on vanity projects.”
M1413 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works