Since 2015, Brazil has been experiencing the explosion of right-wing protests. These protests were assembled by groups organised in digital media, which claimed forms of democratic participation to propagate antidemocratic ideas, such as the shutdown of public policies based on social redistribution of resources to the poorest; the criminalization of the social movements linked to social minorities; and the extinction of councils of popular participation. In this article, we develop a discourse analysis on the Facebook pages of the three major right-wing groups in Brazil, namely, Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL), Vem Pra Rua, and Movimento Contra a Corrupção (MCC). Our sample is composed of 468 posts made by these three groups when they established profiles on Facebook and at the moment of the major right-wing civil protests in Brazil between 2015 and 2018. We aim to understand the discursive strategies adopted by these groups to undermine democratic citizenship purportedly laying claim to its normative terms. We argue that these movements show the dark face of civic action’s supposed virtuosity: a vengeful form of resentment.