What Cesar Chavez Cost the Movement

by Matt Garcia

His Crimes Against Women and His ‘Too Big to Fail’ Persona Created Immeasurable Harm

Those who quote Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar often mistake “Et tu, Brute?” as the dictator’s final line, as Caesar realizes his friend, Marcus Junius Brutus, has stabbed him. With vulgar Caesars dominating the news, from Donald Trump to Cesar Chavez, perhaps Caesar’s actual final line, “Then fall, Caesar,” offers a more appropriate lesson for our time.

The allegations reported in the New York Times that Cesar Chavez...