ABSTRACT This essay contributes to and reframes the preliminary scholarly assessments of President Donald J. Trump's appeals to rage, malice, and revenge by sketching the rhetorical dimensions of an underlying emotional-moral framework in which victimization, resentment, and revenge are inverted civic virtues. I elaborate on the concept of ressentiment (re-sentiment), a condition in which a subject is addled by rage and envy yet remains impotent, subjugated and unable to act on or adequately express frustration. Though anger and resentment capture part of Trump's affective register, I suggest that ressentiment accounts for the unique intersection where powerful sentiments and self-serving morality are coupled with feelings of powerlessness and ruminations on past injuries. Thus, shifting focus from the rhetoric of resentment to that of ressentiment explains how Trump is able to sustain the affective charge of animus without forfeiting the moral high ground of victimhood to his audience's “oppressors”—Democrats, the press, criminals, immigrants, foreign adversaries, welfare recipients, the Me Too movement, “globalists,” and racial Others.

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唐纳德·J·特朗普 (Donald J. Trump) 和怨恨的言辞

摘要 本文通过勾勒出一个潜在的情感-道德框架的修辞维度，在其中受害、怨恨和报复是颠倒的公民美德，对唐纳德·J·特朗普总统对愤怒、恶意和报复的诉求的初步学术评估做出贡献并重新构建。我详细阐述了怨恨（re-sentiment）的概念，在这种情况下，一个对象被愤怒和嫉妒所困扰，但仍然无能为力，被征服，无法采取行动或充分表达沮丧。尽管愤怒和怨恨占据了特朗普情感记录的一部分，但我认为怨恨是独特的交叉点，强大的情绪和自私的道德与无力感和对过去伤害的沉思相结合。因此，