A center-lefty technocrat type who doesn't understand how human beings actually function. A reference to the ID lanyards for conventions and campaigns such types tend to collect as they throw their energy into the campaigns and staffs of people who don't care about them. See also, totebagger and tryhard
A couple of lanyards came to the DSA meeting and tried to tone police us, but one of the guys got them off in a corner discussing local tax credits for private religious schools, and that kept them busy until we got some real work done.