🧩 BND Motif Index · M832
Inflation
Prices keep climbing and the rise is pinned on whoever holds power: it was worse under the last guy, it's higher now, and the grocery bill is the scorecard.
- 15claims filed under it
- 7left shows it came up on
- 4center shows it came up on
- 5right 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 It's the economy, stupid
⤵️ under it: 🧩 The war hits your wallet
🔗 goes with: 🧩 In this economy? 🧩 Pain at the pump
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
"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 “Republicans have made affordability worse through the war in Iran and inconsistent tariff policies.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-21 “Immigration cutbacks have caused labor shortages that drive inflation.”
🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) - 2026-10-21 “Tariffs have contributed to goods price inflation in the United States.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) - 2026-10-20 “Democrats want to open borders, cause inflation, and shut down power plants.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-19 “Latino voters are moving away from Republicans because of the economy and cost of living.”
🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-18 “Rising diesel and energy prices are driving overall inflation through the economy.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) 🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) - 2026-10-16 “Donald Trump is lying about gasoline prices being lower than they were under Joe Biden.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-16 “Inflation is worsening because the Biden administration's policies have made life less affordable.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-11 “The massive stimulus at the end of COVID caused the high inflation.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-10 “Inflation was higher under Joe Biden than it has been under Trump.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-10 “Democrats are responsible for increasing prices and decreasing affordability.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-09 “Inflation and prices are objectively higher under Trump than they were at the end of the Biden administration.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-09 “The Biden administration oversaw much higher inflation rates than the current economic state.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-07 “Trump's trade wars have caused the price of many goods to increase.”
🎙️ The Daily (NYT) 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-08-15 “A Republican voter says kitchen-table issues decide their vote, and Trump's tariffs first pushed prices up.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M832 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works