The leading mayoral candidate in Portland, who says “I am Antifa,” appears to be a little more than that.
If you believe her attire, Sarah Iannarone is a fangirl of communist mass murderers, if not an open communist who might have mass murder as her own plan for whom she calls “Red Hats.”
Journalist Andy Ngo, a frequent target of Antifa thugs who don’t like him filming their revolutionary violence, posted the evidence on Twitter. Iannarone is wearing a skirt bearing Che Guevara, Mao Tse-tung, and a third less-clear figure that appears to be Fidel Castro.
Iannarone’s campaign manager is an open communist.
The Skirt
Proof that Iannarone is at least a sympathizer with mass murder came in a tweet from Ngo.
“Look at the skirt,” Ngo wrote over a photo of Iannarone with a skirt.
The images of Mao and Guevara are clear, although a third is not. It appears to be Castro, although the Daily Caller identified the third likeness as Stalin’s.
Regardless, Iannarone explained lionizing the bloodthirsty, democidal tyrants this way in an interview with the Washington Examiner:
The picture in question was taken with Reverend Billy, whose spectacle of the absurd is a treat whenever it comes to town. I dressed flamboyantly that day in a skirt that features pop art — art that is meant to satirize the subjects. While most Americans are focused on stopping COVID from taking our lives and jobs, some internet commentators are focused on how I dressed during a performance art appearance in 2016. I’m focused on winning a Green New Deal and Housing for All Portlanders, not on false controversy meant to distract from real issues.
Then again, Iannarone uses the language of dangerous revolutionaries by dehumanizing her political opponents.
“To those who say Antifa are violent thugs,” she tweeted a year ago. “I am not a violent thug and I am Antifa.”
Then came the identification of the real evil:
I am Antifa because the Red Hats are coming after brown & black people, after Jews, after queer & trans people, and more.
They are coming after our democracy.
“Red Hats,” meaning Trump supporters, are preparing a second Final Solution, Iannarone says:
And if you don’t understand why the Red Hats would want to exterminate Jews (many of whom present w/ white privilege) or trans people or even women’s rights, then you need to get educated on what the ethnostate they’re fighting for is about.
That tweet carried a story headlined “As White Supremacy Falls Down, White Nationalism Stands Up” that was illustrated with a still photo of William Foster, the protagonist portrayed by Michael Douglas in 1993’s Falling Down.
Frighteningly for normal Portlanders, Iannarone is polling 11 points of ahead of opponent, incumbent Mayor Ted Wheeler, who permitted and encouraged Antifa to seize control of Portland’s streets,
“I Am a Communist”
Ngo also provided another piece of information that voters will appreciate. Ianarrone’s campaign manager is an open communist, not merely a fanboy who wears Guevara T-shirts.
On May 5, 2019, McKelvey explained the difference between a run-of-the-mill Antifa anarchist and real Red:
1. Most anti fascists are not communists.
2. Most of the people you refer to as antifa are anarchists not communists.
3. I am a communist.
As with so many leftist men, McKelvey landed in hot water with the #MeToo movement. During college, he was arrested on a charge on what appears to be domestic violence.
In 2018, OregonLive.com reported that McKelvey “was jailed six years ago on suspicion of strangling and kidnapping an ex-girlfriend while he was an 18-year-old student at Oregon State University, records show.”
Official records of McKelvey’s arrest were expunged. But the Corvallis Gazette-Times reported that cops “responded to a report of a physical altercation between McKelvey and an ex-girlfriend at an Oregon State University residence hall” in September 2011.
“McKelvey had just started his freshman year at OSU,” the newspaper reported. The girl was 17 and still in high school.
In his statement, McKelvey said his ex-girlfriend was upset and had been drinking when she arrived at his dorm on the weekend before her 18th birthday and later became “physical” with another woman there. McKelvey said he then stepped in….
“There was never any allegation that I struck her.”
Maybe, but McKelvey is a confessed communist.
And his boss thinks wearing clothing bearing the likenesses of mass murderers “satirizes” them.
