Antipolitics names moralistic anti-establishment revolt that first surfaced as abstentionism

Evidence

The word [antipolitics] is ambiguous but apt. It expresses a type of moral indignation and rebellion on the part of a growing number of fringe groups who seek to free themselves from the old politics, chiefly through the supposed “virtues” of the Internet. For a long time, prior to the advent of the interactive web, or Web 2.0 (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), this diffuse mood of protest only manifested itself in abstention from voting, sometimes understood as “negative politicization,” or in the drift toward “populism” of the Lega Nord variety. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 186

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the definitional anchor of ‘antipolitics’ as moral indignation expressed chiefly through the Internet.
• QUESTION: The author flags ‘antipolitics’ as ambiguous but apt — worth tracing how his usage diverges from or sharpens the 1990s source (Saint Victor).