Eric Rauchway on Barry Goldwater

Eric:

AuH2O all over again: “Conscience” features numerous dog-whistle appeals to American racists.... [H:]is vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act would speak for itself, even if Goldwater didn’t speak for it: “the Supreme Court decision is not necessarily the law of the land,” he said in 1964, and he (or Bozell) said likewise in 1960, describing Brown v. Board of Education and allied decisions as “abuses of power by the Court.” In italics, Goldwater declares that politics needs to take...