Nearly 1,000 people gathered at Clermont City Hall Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., for the city’s No Kings rally, before marching to Hwy. 50 where they spread out along the sidewalk for blocks, waving American flags and signs, urging drivers to honk their horns in support.
Most drivers honked. A few flipped off the protesters. One driver, with a small dog in her front seat, put her window down to shout, “If Trump was a king, you wouldn’t be here.”
Organized by the nonpartisan political group Lake County Indivisibles, Saturday’s protest was the largest Clermont has seen, according to organizer Cyn Doyle, who told VoxPopuli that smaller groups of protesters have been out twice a week for months, waving signs along Hwy. 50. “We’ve had 67 protests,” she said…