🧩 BND Motif Index · M689
Nativist backlash
The public turns against immigration itself, angry that newcomers are changing the country, and politicians ride the anger.
- 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Immigration as infiltration 🧩 Immigration policy backlash 🧩 Take back our country 🧩 There goes the neighborhood
🎙️ 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
🐘 right 2
"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 “The Trump administration is using immigration and deportations to motivate the Republican base.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-22 “Mass deportation is the essential new grassroots movement within the Republican party.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-21 “Right-wing populism is driven by widespread public sentiment regarding immigration.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-18 “The Republican base's most effective political strategy is to advocate for the deportation of foreigners.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-09 “The American public is increasingly angry about foreigners being given control of the country.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-09 “The American people are fed up with the current situation.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room
M689 · first seen 2026-10-09 · last 2026-10-22 · what this is · how the index works