Federalist vs political leader

Federalist and political leader both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Federalist	Yes	No	No	No
political leader	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, political leader is a hypernym of Federalist; that is, political leader is a word with a broader meaning than Federalist:

Federalist: a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government
political leader: a person active in party politics

Other hypernyms of Federalist include pol, politician, politico.

Federalist (noun)	political leader (noun)
a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government	a person active in party politics