🧩 BND Motif Index · M1106
The party left me
A voter who backed someone for years says it's they who changed, not him: she's not the person I voted for; I didn't leave the party, the party left me (Reagan's line, now said by Democrats turned Republican and back).
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Betrayal and Loyalty
- 2claims filed under it
- 3right 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.
🎙️ 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
- 2026-10-24 “Maine voters who backed Susan Collins for years say she has changed and is not the person they voted for.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-24 “Democrats are leaving the party because it no longer represents their values.”
🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz
M1106 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works