🧩 BND Motif Index · M815
Ride the wave
A leader catches a wave of public anger and rides it to renew his mandate: there go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them (Ledru-Rollin, 1848).
- 3claims filed under it
- 2center shows it came up on
- 1right show 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: 🧩 Tribune of the people
🎙️ 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
🐘 right 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.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-17 “Public approval numbers give the Trump administration permission to carry out deportations.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-08 “Pedro Sánchez is calling a snap election to use public anger over housing as a way to renew his political mandate.”
🎙️ The Intelligence (Economist) - 2026-10-06 “The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is calling a snap election to secure a broader progressive majority to transform Spain.”
🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast
M815 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works