Abstract
Emotions have always been invested in politics. Politicians and politically biased public intellectuals manage citizens’ emotions for various purposes: to alienate them from the rival political camp and to make them participate in elections or in politics in general. <em>Ressentiment</em> is an affective style of great political potential and it is present throughout democratic European societies. By analysing the discourses of the culture war between the political camps in Hungary since 2018, this article presents the components, drivers, mechanisms, and some typical outcomes of <em>ressentiment</em> on the levels of the individual and the political communities. It argues that in political communication both political sides are trying to appeal to the citizens’ <em>ressentiment</em>. Both camps use communicative means to incite, channel, and reorient <em>ressentiment</em> by, e.g., scapegoating, identity work, and transvaluation to attract citizens, stabilize their own support, and nudge followers towards specific political activities.
Subject
Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science
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