🧩 BND Motif Index · M925
Reaches across the aisle
A politician is praised, or sells himself, as one who works with the other side and stands above party fights.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 5claims filed under it
- 1center 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: 🧩 Gets stuff done 🧩 Work horse not a show horse
🎙️ 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 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"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 “Susan Collins used to be very bipartisan and catered to both sides.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-22 “Gadi Eisenkot is a moderate pragmatist and a consensus candidate who stands by the main issues concerning Israelis.”
🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-09-12 “Greg Abbott has been effective at selling himself as a bipartisan candidate” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-08 “I'm as hardcore Republican as they come, but not be so hardcore that you don't at least take into account, right. You know, an opposing view.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-01 “Haley Stevens is a pragmatic politician who focuses on Michigan-specific issues and bipartisan deals.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M925 · first seen 2026-10-13 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works