I thought highly of it too
More recommended reading apropos our beloved Zoner wingnut colleagues: The Politics of Ressentiment
It's from 2009, and the foreground is Sarah Palin newly-arrived on the scene. But its analysis of her appeal as "ressentiment" rather than "schadenfreude" or any of the conventional wisdoms for the psychology of extreme rightists, seems to illuminate another dark corner of the rightwing authoritarian mind.
Ressentiment is a sense of resentment and hostility directed at that which one identifies as the cause of one’s frustration, an assignation of blame for one’s frustration. The sense of weakness or inferiority and perhaps jealousy in the face of the “cause” generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one’s frustration. The ego creates an enemy in order to insulate itself from culpability.
Sort of deflection with spittle.