prepopulist

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ populist.

Adjective

prepopulist (not comparable)

1. Prior to the onset of populism.
   • 2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     STANWYCK REDUX (Tuesday) An extension of the Brooklyn Academy of Music s popular Barbara Stanwyck series from last spring, featuring that Brooklyn bombshell in one of her strongest pre-Code films, The Miracle Woman, a thinly veiled portrait of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson directed, in his prepopulist phase, by Frank Capra.