neopopulist

[nee-oh-pop-yuh-list]

adjective

1. pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.

Other Word Forms

• neopopulism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of neopopulist¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

He has also co-authored a series of self-published books advocating a “Christian neopopulist” agenda and endorsing the president’s assault on the media and other institutions.

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From the past to the present, nearly all neopopulist predictions for America’s economic future have been bleak—and wrong.

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Many of them are explicitly hostile to populist models such as 21st-century socialism, the economic model coined by Chávez in the mid-2000s and championed by several neopopulist leftist governments in Latin America.

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Alexander's stump speech touts a neopopulist plan to transfer $200 billion in federal programs ranging from welfare to law enforcement back to the states, communities, churches and families that handled those responsibilities before the New Deal.

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Over hot dogs and beer, the two men reviewed the text of a neopopulist economic address -- delivered complete with some Dukakis stylistic improvements in the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock last Monday.

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