anti-establishment

Adjective

anti-establishment (comparative more anti-establishment, superlative most anti-establishment)

1. Opposed to the existing sociopolitical system (the establishment).
   • The hippies were noted for their anti-establishment ways, firmly opposed to the order their parents so revered.
   • Almost one-third of Europeans now vote for populist, far-right or far-left parties, research shows, with wide support for anti-establishment politics surging across the continent in an increasingly problematic challenge to the mainstream.2023 September 21, Jon Henley, “Revealed: one in three Europeans now votes anti-establishment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN