Just as the NYT intentionally chose a reporter with no qualifications other than the assurance that this reporter would produce the stories that the NYT wants printed, People Of Influence And Authority will have no problem finding willing servants.
For if the Establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to co-opt, whom to buy off, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore.
Just as the NYT intentionally chose a reporter with no qualifications other than the assurance that this reporter would produce the stories that the NYT wants printed, People Of Influence And Authority will have no problem finding willing servants.
For if the Establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to co-opt, whom to buy off, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore.
and who to destroy as use an example of the consequences of acting conscientiously and not doing the line.
The term "neutralize" may be read as euphemism.