polemicist

noun

1. A person who writes polemics.
2. A person who puts forward controversial views.

   “The choice is between a polemicist with deep ties to the alt-right movement, or a conventional policy professional with an open channel to the political establishment that Trump ran against, but which he needs to pass an agenda.”

   “You know Ann describes herself as a polemicist...”

   “A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work of Christopher F. Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation.”