exponent vs admirer

Other hyponyms of exponent include apologist, justifier, vindicator, commie, communist, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, populist, fascist, federalist, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, drumbeater, partisan, zealot, partitionist, Platonist, pro-lifer, presenter, sponsor, protectionist, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separationist, separatist, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice, suffragist, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, voice in the wilderness.