ideologue

noun

ideo·logue | \ ˈī-dē-ə-ˌlȯg

, -ˌläg\

variants: or less commonly idealogue

Definition of ideologue

1 : an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology

2 : an impractical idealist : theorist

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Examples of ideologue in a Sentence

as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country

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Whereupon ideologues retreated to their corners and fired up their social media accounts. — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, "Colin Kaepernick convinces Nike to halt production of shoe with ‘offensive’ flag," 2 July 2019 Even President Trump gets a relative pass in the state media compared with Pompeo, who is described more as an ideologue and gets pilloried on a weekly if not daily basis. — Washington Post, "As U. S-China relations tumble, Beijing unleashes fury at one target: Mike Pompeo," 27 June 2019 Even President Trump gets a relative pass in the state media compared with Pompeo, who is described more as an ideologue and gets pilloried on a weekly if not daily basis. — Gerry Shih, BostonGlobe.com, "As US-China relations tumble, Beijing unleashes fury at one target: Pompeo," 27 June 2019 As a result, many of those who defend Moro and Bolsonaro, or who simply abhor Lula and progressive politics, are already trying to discount The Intercept’s reporting as the work of unscrupulous ideologues. — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, "The Conspiracy to Discredit Brazil’s Left," 10 June 2019 The underlying absurdity of the fugitive’s condition, as well as Transit’s understated modernism, belies Seghers’s reputation as a Marxist ideologue; most certainly this strain of absurdism helped interest Petzold in the material. — J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, "The Waiting Rooms of History," 7 Mar. 2019 Hillary Clinton and her supporters could not simply portray him as a radical ideologue with foolhardy plans that could never be implemented—as Sanders likes to point out, many of his policy proposals poll quite well. — Matthew Zeitlin, The New Republic, "Bernie’s Red Vermont," 13 June 2019 The Star’s model makes sense: Partisans and ideologues will always have an interest in bankrolling local political reporting. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "‘Baby Breitbarts’ Might Be the Future of Local Newspapers," 1 May 2018 Boredom inoculates us against the tiresome ideologue, the person who wants to fix everything with One Big Idea ... — F.h. Buckley, WSJ, "Politics Has Become Boring Again—and That’s a Relief," 19 Feb. 2019

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