🧩 BND Motif Index · M737
Triangulation
A party is said to win by taking the other side's popular issue as its own, a strong border for Democrats, as Clinton took welfare reform, leaving its rival nothing to run on.
- 5claims filed under it
- 2right shows it came up on
- 3claims 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
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Thrown under the bus
🎙️ 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 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 2
"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
- 2026-10-20 “Democrats are abandoning or actively threatening trans rights through rhetoric and policy.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “Democrats are enabling fascism by adopting its policies and failing to protect marginalized groups.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-19 “Political leaders and parties are abandoning trans rights to appease conservatives or avoid offense.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Democrats need to develop a strategy for border control if they want to maintain power.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-06 “Some Democrats are moderating their stances on abortion and gender transitions to improve their chances of being elected.”
🎙️ Morning Wire
M737 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works