Moynihan's role in a Republican White House was at once that of policy maker and ideological warrior.
Now to be a New Atheist is to be an ideological warrior against nationalistic Islam.
China has always had its enemies in the United States, from exiled dissidents to ideological warriors in search of a new Evil Empire.
Like Obama (although for different reasons), Cain is ill-suited to the role of ideological warrior.
Podhoretz remains, through much of the book, the ideological warrior in winter, fondly recounting his struggles.
Meanwhile, the Khmer Rouge were gradually transforming themselves from ideological warriors of the twentieth century to nihilistic road warriors of the twenty-first.
"It was a free throw," the old ideological warrior said with a smile.
It was a spirited and unusual meeting of ideological warriors - the first time, in fact, that any F.B.I. director has ever addressed the organization, group officials said.
Cunningham, however, argues that reporters by and large are not ideological warriors.
They are not ideological warriors but, rather, reformists who have called for incremental, democratic change.