The Creep of Trumpism #244 By Hank Silverberg My wife and I have raised two daughters who are now in their 30's. They are educated and productive young women of whom we are very proud. Like many of their generation, they are faced with problems we did not anticipate when they were born in the 1980's. Both have staggering student loan debt, even though we had saved what we thought was a substantial amount of money and borrowed some ourselves to pay for their education. It wasn't enough. We thought they were growing up in a world where women were finally going to be treated equally with men and where racism and sexism was slowly fading into history. We were wrong. The conservative, white, Protestant male who has ruled with privilege for centuries just hasn't surrendered yet. In reality, they have launched a counter-offensive which denies women control of their own body and separates everyone by race, ...