🧩 BND Motif Index · M1701
Greatest of all time
A figure on one's own side, a judge, a general, a statesman, is ranked among the greatest who ever held the post, said as a settled verdict with the superlatives piled on rather than argued: the sibling of Best president ever.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Leadership Legitimacy🗂️ Best and worst ever
- 2claims filed under it
- 3right 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Best president ever
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 3 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- 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: “I think the greatest Supreme Court justice of our lifetime.” “I think we have two of the greatest justices in history on the court right now.” “the greatest governor in my lifetime and perhaps anybody's lifetime.” “those were the three, three of the greatest ever, ever.”
🧶 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 2
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-10 “Ron DeSantis is making Florida unbeatable through successful policies like property tax relief.” 2
- 2026-11-07 “The Supreme Court currently includes two of the greatest justices in history, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.” 2
M1701 · first seen 2026-11-07 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works