🧩 BND Motif Index · M771
RINO
A Republican in name only: he talks conservative at home, protecting children, cutting taxes, then votes with the establishment, the leadership, the other side.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 6claims filed under it
- 2right shows it came up on
⚠️ 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 🧩 No true Scotsman
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Owned politician 🧩 True conservative
🎙️ 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
"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
- 2026-10-22 “Dade Phelan wants Democrats to win because he is part of the political class.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-22 “The Bushes are the worst element in the country; they did great damage and now cross over to back Democrats.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-21 “John Cornyn works to defeat Republican candidates he does not support, even after campaigning against Democrats.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-20 “Some Texas Republicans work to advance Democratic priorities and undermine their own party.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-09 “Certain Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives are problematic because they vote for leadership that does not align with their stated values.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-08-08 “Mark Sanford is more liberal-leaning than Republican.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M771 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-21 · what this is · how the index works