Another call to rally by the group Indivisible Mobile, and Saturday, protesters from across the area responded once again lining Government St. outside Government Plaza for the latest nationwide "No Kings" rally.

The thousands who showed up in Mobile, Fairhope, and Northwest Florida continued the drumbeat of protests against the Trump administration.

But there was something new this time beyond the president's immigration crackdown and worries about the economy. The war in Iran brought new faces to the crowd, and new points of concern for the organizers.

"There is a low-grade anxiety many of us are carrying now," Rhoda Vanderhart of Open Table Church of Christ told the crowd. "A sense that things are becoming less predictable, less stable, more fragile than we were led to believe."

"We are experiencing the death of civility and the obliteration of compassion," said Indivisible Mobile's Maura Mandyck. "We are in the grip of a madman who is being enabled by feckless Republicans and lukewarm Democrats, and we are oppressed by the billionaire class. An uncomfortable percentage of Americans are in cult-like thrall to Donald Trump, and reality is up for grabs."

An estimated 8M people across the Gulf Coast and the nation took to the streets Saturday, marking a vocalization of growing discontent.

Rallies also popped up in Pensacola, Milton, and Navarre, Florida, action that prompted this response from Florida's Republican Party Chairperson Evan Power.

"The people turn out because they're being paid," he claimed, "and are being encouraged by groups who are astroturfing their own momentum. Here's what I know. 77 million people voted for Donald Trump to be President and he's delivering results people wanted, and, you know, we can talk about all of the details all we want. But at the end of the day, we're producing real results for Floridians and they're playing make-believe at fake rallies."

Those rallies are seeing increasing numbers as America inches closer to midterm congressional elections.

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