My uncle, had he lived, would be the same age as Donald Trump. Like Trump, he grew up in Queens. 

I loved my uncle, but I have to say, he judged women by their bodies in the same way Trump does. He didn't do it on TV, in front of rallies. But he also didn't make much of an attempt to hide his opinions.

He had what I felt were very bizarre ideas about sexual relationships. I've tried to even write down some of his ideas, but I can't even find the words. Things he thought of as betrayals were just people being more complex than he thought they were, or people changing.

I heard someone describe Trump as an anachronism, a man who acts as if he just came out of a Las Vegas steam room with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. A man who thinks of women as broads or dames. A pinup girl, a Playboy bunny.

On the other hand, he does hire women for senior jobs. Not sure how to make sense of that. 

But most if not all of who he is, as we're learning about his sexuality, is rooted in America's fading past. It's as if the old Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson was back on the air, and life seemed simpler, because the people were younger and happier. 

Boys will be boys! 

But as we're seeing through Trump, it was also a mean time, not something we should want to return to.