The phrase "establishment narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a dominant or widely accepted story or explanation that supports the status quo or established institutions.
Example: "Critics argue that the establishment narrative fails to address the underlying issues faced by marginalized communities."
Alternatives: "mainstream narrative" or "official narrative."
The story of Marikana's violence and poverty has prompted many South Africans to ask themselves what other establishment narratives might merely be illusions.
Given the common policy themes, the insurgent-versus-establishment narrative has loomed large.
By Samantha Henig September 15, 2010 To know: The anti-incumbent, anti-establishment narrative continued with yesterday's primaries.
The Ohio governor's race also illustrates that the politics of this midterm election do not always fall easily into the anti-incumbent, anti-establishment narrative.
But by the end of the campaign, Vote Leave ended up aping his message on controlling borders, borrowing his Believe in Britain slogan, and adopting his "elites v the people" anti-establishment narrative, as the focus shifted from arguments about sovereignty and the economics of Brexit to warnings about immigration.
Featuring models who looked as if they'd been cast on the street dolefully sporting corsets, chain-mail chokers and Marcel waves in their hair, it was a gender-fluid show that recalled misfit time capsules such as the Blitz club and anti-establishment narratives such as Derek Jarman's Jubilee.
"We reenacted the idea of what the state did, which was to put him away, as they needed someone [to blame]." The loose coalescing of anti-establishment narratives is lost on some attendees.
Given Clinton's insurmountable advantage with African Americans, a big fact which doesn't fit too well into a Sanders enthusiast establishment conspiracy narrative, the Sanders loss in Nevada probably guaranteed his ultimate defeat.
It is only with the recent "adoption" of the hirak by two very influential TV stations that the public can regularly hear an untarnished different version from the state or establishment's narrative, i.e. from the perspective of non-partisan experts, debunking myths and lies perpetrated by loyalist propaganda media and commentators.
This would give us a national narrative a million miles away from the establishment tale of royal weddings and military interventions.
