apparatchik

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a blindly devoted official, follower, or member of an organization (as a corporation or political party)
This word appears in an editorial by Paul Krugman in the New York Times: "The key point is that ever since the Reagan years, the Republican Party has been dominated by radicals -- ideologues and/or apparatchiks who, at a fundamental level, do not accept anyone else's right to govern."

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