π§© BND Motif Index Β· M893
Wish he were ours
A foreign leader is held up as the one we ought to have, decent, brave and truthful, to shame our own: he's done so much with so little, ours so little with so much.
βοΈ ValuesποΈ Leadership Legitimacy
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
β οΈ 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.
πͺ Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
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π§Ά Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-12 βThe United States would be better off with Volodymyr Zelenskyy as president because of his superior character and intelligence compared to Donald Trump.β π§Ά people online
M893 Β· first seen 2026-10-12 Β· last 2026-10-13 Β· what this is Β· how the index works