🧩 BND Motif Index · M688
Stochastic terrorism
The charge that a leader's demonizing of a named target, a reporter, a judge, a rival, makes violence against them likely from someone, somewhere, while he keeps his own hands clean.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Bad faith🗂️ Political violence
- 3claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1right show 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Inflammatory political rhetoric
🔗 goes with: 🧩 An enemy of the people
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"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
- 2026-10-21 “Donald Trump is trying to incite violence with messages about Somali immigrants in Minnesota.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ Today, Explained - 2026-10-12 “Violent threats against elected officials have become a new normal, impacting their private lives and ability to serve.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Donald Trump's legacy includes treating the media with disrespect rather than seeking their favor.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show
M688 · first seen 2026-10-09 · last 2026-10-21 · what this is · how the index works