apparatchik

He sounds like an apparatchik addressing a party congress on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, repeatedly declaring fealty to “the committee,” using Marxist buzzwords like “praxis,” and casually deploying “Zionist” as a slur.

“Who’s going to volunteer to be the next civil servant if they think their supervisor is an apparatchik?”

The Federal Society apparatchiks who controlled advancement didn’t know her.

So far, Trump's apparatchiks have not blatantly defied the courts, but they're working them around the edges.

Are they academics, scholars and scientists, or do they also include those of less elevated standing — technocrats, policy wonks, apparatchiks, pundits, journalists — who command a sizable public audience?