ideologue means A person who advocates an ideology, especially as an official or preeminent advocate. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
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IDEOLOGUE — [Noun] An uncompromising, dogmatic advocate of a particular ideology, for whom the internal coherence of a doctrine supersedes empirical evidence. Borrowed from French idéologue (circa 1800), itself from idéologie ("ideology"), a classical compound formed on Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, "form, idea") and -λογία (-logía, "study of, speaking"). Unlike the pragmatist, who bends principles to practical ends, or the idealist, who is animated by ethical aspiration, the ideologue is a vessel for a pre-fabricated system. He is the commissar filing a report that ignores the famine outside his window, the voice that turns debate into recited scripture, the hand that redraws a vibrant neighborhood into sterile sectors on a map—a testament to the terrible comfort of having all the answers before the questions have even been asked.
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- A person who advocates an ideology, especially as an official or preeminent advocate.“An examination of the Nie et al. party and candidate levels over time (shown in Figure 10) reveals that the changes in the number of ideologues in the levels from 1960 to 1964 were caused entirely by changes in the candidate index.”