🧩 BND Motif Index · M678
Never interrupt your enemy
An opponent who is failing should be left where he is: better an incompetent enemy in office than a capable one in his place.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Horserace🗂️ Gamesmanship
- 1claim filed under it
⚠️ 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Kicked upstairs
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Democrats should want him, should have wanted him to stay as the attorney general in Texas because ... he like, frankly, wasn't very good at it”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Said by voters 1
claims voters made in The Focus Group
- 2026-09-12 “Ken Paxton is said to have run the attorney general's office badly, so Democrats should have wanted to keep him there.”
M678 · first seen 2026-10-09 · what this is · how the index works