Someone who blindly agrees with and supports their political party simply because of their refusal to accept that they themselves may have been misled and/or are wrong on major social issues. See also, listing for HYS.
There's no use trying to convince him otherwise, he votes the straight party ticket. HYS is a party hack. End of discussion.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)