counterestablishment

noun

counterestablishment

noun

Etymology From counter- + establishment.

1

An establishment that opposes another establishment.

  • Founded in 1953 to seed a new conservative generation (and originally called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists), this pioneer of what would become a sprawling conservative counterestablishment boasted as its first president a young man named William F. Buckley Jr., who would go on to bigger things.2007 October 7, Jonathan Rauch, “Crisis on the Right”, in New York Times:

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