🧩 BND Motif Index · M1008
Last refuge of a scoundrel
Loud patriotism, the chant, the flag, is said to cover for the ones betraying the country: patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- 1claim filed under it
- 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 🧩 Pious hypocrite
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-20 “MAGA supporters chanting 'USA' is antithetical to American values because they use it to drown out First Amendment rights and support traitors.” 🧶 people online
M1008 · first seen 2026-10-20 · what this is · how the index works