Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 165 of Matthew Continetti’s 2022 book, The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism:

In truth, [Barry] Goldwater did support racial integration. He did help found Arizona’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He did work to desegregate the Senate cafeteria. He did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1957. But he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he believed that Title II (mandating equality in public accommodations) and Title VII (prohibiting workplace discrimination) were unconstitutional and would lead to affirmative action and racial quotas.

DBx: Goldwater might deserve condemnation for voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which was signed into law 60 years ago today). But even if you, unlike me, believe that government-mandated affirmative action and racial quotas are merited and just, Goldwater deserves credit for foreseeing – against the claims of Hubert Humphrey and many other of the Act’s supporters – that that legislation would lead to affirmative action and racial quotas.