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politician, in its earliest sense: A schemer or plotter; a shrewd, sagacious, or crafty person. In later use also: a self-interested manipulator, whose behaviour is likened to that of a professional politician.
one could argue that this drifts back and forth, or that it has never changed all that much.
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