The word 'ideologue' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to someone who strongly adheres to a particular ideology or set of beliefs. It can be used to describe someone who is dogmatic or uncompromising in their political, religious, or philosophical views. Example: The leader of the political party was seen as an ideologue, unwilling to listen to opposing viewpoints or consider alternative solutions.
However we diverge politically, I have enough faith in Eastwood's artistry and intellect to trust that he is not a black-and-white ideologue – or, at least, that he knows that the limitations of such a worldview would make for an extremely dull movie.
In fact, she was the ideologue for the view that nuclear weapons were a necessary deterrent to the USSR.
Others say he is "utterly ruthless", has a "voracious" thirst for knowledge, but also an appetite for fixing the facts; that he always has an open mind, and yet also that he is an unbending ideologue.
People loved those Tina Fey/Sarah Palin sketches because Sarah Palin is a terrifying, anti-intellectual, anti-choice, gun-toting ideologue who came within a hair's breadth of one of the most powerful political offices in the world, a dystopian potentiality that could have tangibly affected the lives of literally billions of people.
But that was because I felt I was vicariously witnessing not one of those rare moments when the British achieve a sense of national identity but the well-staged funeral of a combative ideologue.
He does not look like a computer boffin, nor does he speak in the manner of a tortured ideologue.
Graham Brady, a resigner "on principle" over grammar schools became chairman, Christopher Chope, an old school Maggie-ista ideologue and Mark Pritchard, a young school one, became joint secretaries.
"Links between Russian nationalists and the European far right go back to the 1990s," said Anton Shekhovtsov, an academic who researches far-right movements, citing Russian figures such as the nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky or the neo-fascist ideologue Alexander Dugin.
He is not a mere ideologue.
Ronald Reagan's amiable "There you go again" riposte in his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter is credited with reassuring voters that he was not the fierce ideologue some feared.
