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** Perhaps the best example of this is Bernie Sanders. In 2015/2016, Sanders made a Presidential bid based on being a rogue element in the Democratic party, championed by a lot of supporters who declared him something new and different from other politicians. It should be noted that Bernie Sanders is an old white man who has literally never had another job besides being a loyal, party-adherent Democrat politician.
*** The person who beat him for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, is another good example of this. Currently she is running at least partly on the premise that she will revitalize Democratic leadership as something new and not just be more of the same old political machine. Apparently the part where she has been a senior policy advisor to the last sixteen years' worth of Democratic presidents (specifically, President Barack Obama and her own husband President Bill Clinton), was a senior campaign manager for one and a Cabinet secretary under the other has completely slipped her mind.
*** Her opponent, Donald Trump, also has his own measure of this trope. While he can at least legitimately claim not to be part of the established political power structure (this is his first attempt at running for public office, and the only reason he's the Republican nominee is because he's won that many primary elections, as his own senior party establishment ''does not like him''), his claims to be a champion of the common man are somewhat more doubtful given that he is not only a billionaire but one whose business model relies on basically strip-mining his investors.
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