🧩 BND Motif Index · M1809
Concerned, but votes yes
A politician with a name for independence from her party's leader is said to voice concern and promise to stand up to him, then vote his way every time, and her record with him is held up as proof the independent streak was only for show.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes🗂️ Leader-Follower Dynamics🗂️ Hypocrisy
- 6claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 2center 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
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (4 left-leaning, 2 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"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.
🧶 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 2
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-28 “Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time.” 4
- 2026-10-26 “Susan Collins is hurting Maine because she votes with Donald Trump nearly 96% of the time.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-28 “Susan Collins is a corrupt Trump stooge who has failed Maine and betrayed democracy.”
Said by voters 3
claims voters made in The Focus Group
- 2026-11-07 “Susan Collins can no longer be trusted to check Trump.”
- 2026-11-07 “Maine voters who disliked Trey Jackson backed him as a warm body who would vote against Trump, as Susan Collins would not.”
- 2026-10-24 “Susan Collins says she will stand up to Donald Trump but does not.”
M1809 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works