routineer

The type of statesman we must oppose to the routineer is one who regards all social organization as an instrument.

Taft was the perfect routineer trying to run government as automatically as possible.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer.

The routineer is, of course, the first to decry every radical proposal as "against human nature."

The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse.