# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\
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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> We know that the Politics of Resentment works, and that it’s certainly not wholly confined to the right. The left employs it, too. (After all, as I made a thread with Schadenfreude in the title, I can scarcely claim to be unfamiliar with the emotion.)-

This goes along with the new word I learned today:

> noun: **revanchism**
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> 1. a policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory.
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> “a recipe for deep future resentment, revanchism and renewed conflict”

Used [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-potential-rise-of-the-never-trumpers/937333):

> …David Frum, the former Bush speechwriter who was one of the first conservatives to recognize the party’s collapse into revanchism, wrote a [column](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/america-must-become-democracy/618028/) for _The_ _Atlantic_ arguing that Trump’s rise reflects not the tendency of a demagogue to inflame the majority, as the founders feared, but the power of a _minority_ …

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