🧩 BND Motif Index · M217
Backfiring policy
A policy meant to help ends up hurting the very people or economy it was supposed to serve.
- 22claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 5right shows it came up on
- 5claims 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: 🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers 🧩 Distorted markets 🧩 Cut off your nose to spite your face 🧩 The cure is worse than the disease 🧩 Dummymander 🧩 Sleeping giant
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Flawed system revealed 🧩 Hoist by his own petard 🧩 Housing shortage 🧩 Own goal 🧩 The buck stops here
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 4
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The David Frum Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes
⚖️ center 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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump announces $8 billion relief for farmers amid diesel cost concerns 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-23
- 📰 U.S. trade deficit widens in August 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-07
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Obamacare made healthcare expensive by wiping out competitive pricing.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-24 “Kathy Hochul's green energy policies are a scam that cause massive utility rate hikes.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-23 “Taxing the wealthy causes businesses to leave and prevents new construction and jobs.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-23 “Trump's detention policies result in the release of violent criminals to prioritize mass deportations.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) - 2026-10-23 “Green energy policies are a scam that drive up utility bills.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump's trade wars and policies have bankrupted farmers, necessitating bailouts.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “Trump's plan to allow truckers to buy tax-free red dye diesel will drive up prices and hurt farmers.”
🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-22 “Trump's tariffs have negatively impacted the manufacturing industry in Kansas.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-22 “Roger Marshall's policies are hurting the Kansas beef industry and farmers.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-21 “The approval of the Jackdaw gas field fails to improve energy security or lower bills and instead undermines the transition to renewables.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “The climate movement has caused Democrats to shut down refineries and stop all new refinery construction.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-13 “Trump's policies like tariffs and war are detrimental to much of rural Kansas.”
🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show 🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-12 “Trump's tariffs are causing a backlash among factory workers and may lead to a Republican midterm disaster.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “Trump's tariffs caused disastrous business uncertainty and hurt Midwestern farming states.”
🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-11 “Mass deportations result in the release of more violent criminals.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) - 2026-10-08 “City governments make it difficult to increase housing supply by imposing mandatory affordable housing requirements and labor regulations.”
🎙️ The David Frum Show - 2026-10-08 “Restrictive building regulations and zoning in cities like San Francisco and New York make it nearly impossible to build new homes.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-07 “Trump's tariffs are failing and causing the U.S. trade deficit to increase, contrary to his claims.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Republicans are losing registered voters because they are cleaning voter rolls faster than they are registering new ones.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-05 “Florida's government is targeting Canadians through a property tax scheme that will drive them out of the state and harm its economy.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Rent control and housing policy are deeply flawed, with rent control distorting housing markets, creating long-term affordability issues, and failing to address the root problem of insufficient housing supply.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-08-15 “Voters think tariffs are not working for them” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M217 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works