"flag-waver" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1910, George A. Donnelly, The Union Postal Clerk, volume 6, page 102",
          "text": "In every organization exists a number of so-called flagwavers. Their principal stock in trade is a boisterous verbal display of loyalty to the cause […]",
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          "ref": "1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies, page 39",
          "text": "And the hardcore group of some fifty North Viet flagwavers, they're toting the yellow-star standard as if they owned it! And does General Giap know his battles are being won with the aid of every last boy and girl fluttering their flags […]",
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          "text": "These kinds of empirical studies might seem like the best way of countering the claims of post-bureaucracy's flag-wavers. They certainly act as an antidote to the extravagant and self-serving claims […]",
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