🧩 BND Motif Index · M451
Pact with the devil
A group allies with a corrupt figure for what he can do for it, and the alliance ends up corrupting the group itself.
📜 Plots🗂️ Bad faith🗂️ Influence and Corruption
- 3claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ 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, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"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, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “Some evangelicals support Trump because they view him as a strong person who will defend their cultural interests.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook - 2026-10-08 “A video shows Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro telling a Masonic lodge he would give Brazil to 'Greater Israel' and Satan.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-07-18 “David French argues that Donald Trump has changed the evangelical church more than the church has changed Trump.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M451 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works