Definition of "ideologue" []

• An advocate of a particular ideology, especially an official exponent of that ideology. (noun)

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• "President Obama is likely to go down as this generation's Jimmy Carter, that is to say a one term ideologue."
• "Johnston, avid supporter of the program writes, President Obama is likely to go down as this generation's Jimmy Carter, that is to say a one term ideologue."
• "Rejecting the object of philosophy, the pure object, the ideologue is left only with his demiurgic drive to impose an ideal on the world and for this he must claim that the meanings of institutions, practices, and realities, like human beings, are social constructions that, accordingly, have only the value that society confers on them."