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🧩 BND Motif Index · M610

Thrown under the bus

A party or movement sacrifices a vulnerable group within its coalition to win over voters who dislike them.

📜 Plots🗂️ Horserace🗂️ Part and whole

⚠️ 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 🧩 Triangulation

🔗 goes with: 🧩 Pandering 🧩 Silent complicity 🧩 Spineless leadership 🧩 Thrown overboard

🧶 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard

M610 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-28 · what this is · how the index works

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