Veterans are standing in the middle of D.C.’s Memorial Circle at rush hour with banners denouncing plans for Trump’s arch. Their continuing protest, which started on Memorial Day, features a replica arch and urgent plea to “protect and defend the solemnity and honor of this hallowed ground.”

There is an old saying that all politics is local. In Wilton Manors, politics can sometimes feel even closer than that.

While taking unhurried strokes in the pool, I started asking myself, “Who are you, Brian McNaught?”

A man with a third grader’s intellect says all we need to regulate AI is a smart president. The same guy who will bark “hoax! hoax! hoax!” at climate change while Mar a Lago takes on water now insists that efforts to regulate AI are also a hoax. If Americans listen to this barking clown instead of scientists, engineers, and AI developers, we truly have entered Idiocracy, and we will get the killer robots we deserve.