🧩 BND Motif Index · M1770
Commies
The other side is called communist outright: its people comrades and Bolsheviks, its methods the communist playbook of lists, purges and show trials, so a rival at home becomes the old enemy of the Cold War.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Left wing archetypes🗂️ Leftism
- 9claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 5right 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Radical left
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 1 center, 5 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- center
- 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: “This is straight up what communism looks like.”
🧶 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 9
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-10 “The government is said to go after political opponents the way communists do, silencing them and shutting down their businesses.” 1
- 2026-11-07 “Democrats are communists, socialists, and hate America types.” 3
- 2026-11-06 “Democrats are behaving like fascists or communists in their pursuit of political investigations.” 2
- 2026-11-06 “Zohran Mamdani, called a communist, is said to want an end to all federal immigration enforcement.” 1
- 2026-10-31 “Democrats have become leftists running the communist playbook, with a list of people they plan to go after.” 1
- 2026-10-30 “Kara Swisher, a far-left neo-communist, says Elon Musk and Donald Trump top the list of those who will be investigated again.” 1
- 2026-10-28 “Democrats, communists, have proudly announced they will spread the communist infection here by packing the Supreme Court and adding states.” 1
- 2026-10-27 “The Democratic party operates like a communist organization.” 2
- 2026-10-25 “Angie Nixon is a communist socialist who does not hide her ideology.” 2
M1770 · first seen 2026-11-09 · last 2026-10-16 · what this is · how the index works