Anti Establishment Political Party

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Is there such a thing or would this be an oxymoron of a party.

I'm not sure it could exist coherently, at least not in any place with multiparty democracy.

It can exist in single party states (or similar) because the one thing that would unite all dissenters is the demand to have a means to reject the establishment. Once that exists, there's nothing uniting the different anti-establishment forces so they'll fragment into smaller coalitions based on where they agree.

Nah, calls to "drain the swamp" have won elections. It's a big thing. I think the idea is that people in "liberal democracies" are actually living in autocracies but have been hypnotized into thinking otherwise. Each person hearing this has an epiphany and realizes that all their personal problems can be blamed on the power structure.

In the US both parties had populist uprisings. The Dem one was lead by Bernie Sanders, and the GOP by Trump. The GOP revolt succeeded in comandeering the GOP. Both uprisings could be said to be "anti establishment". But they were polar opposite in beliefs. Groups that oppose the status quo dont necessarily agree each other. Indeed are usually farther from each other in philosophy than any are from the middle of the road establishment.