prepopulist en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + populist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Prior to the onset of populism.
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.
2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times: