Kyle Kulinski Compares America to Nazi Regime During Progressive Call
A progressive political livestream featuring several Democratic figures drew criticism after podcaster Kyle Kulinski opened the event with a harsh attack on the United States and Israel.
The March virtual event, hosted by Progressive Victory, was titled “Choose Your Fighter.” It was promoted as a forum for progressive politicians opposing the ongoing conflict in Iran. The guest lineup included Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California and Cori Bush, along with Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Controversial streamer Hasan Piker also took part.
Khanna’s spokesperson later said the congressman was not present when Kulinski made the remarks. The spokesperson said Khanna joined the event briefly to speak and then left.
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Organizers introduced Kulinski as an “up and comer” in the progressive movement. He then accused the United States and Israel of “creating the fourth Reich” and compared their leaders to some of history’s most notorious dictators.
“These are genuinely repulsive, disgusting, wretched, depraved human beings, okay? They enjoy the pain and the violence and the suffering and the death and the destruction that they inflict on the rest of the world,” Kulinski said.
He continued, “It is absolutely accurate to compare these people to the worst criminals in history, to Mussolini, to Adolf Hitler.”
Kulinski also claimed that “we have descended into fascism” and that the United States is “governed by dead-eye psychopaths and sociopaths and bloodthirsty imperialists.”
He argued that the United States and Israel—not Iran—were responsible for terrorism in the region.
“People need to come to terms with the fact that in this instance the U.S. government and the Israeli government, they are the terrorists … they are doing terrorism,” Kulinski said.
He added, “If Iran is off the table as a regional power that means Hezbollah can’t be funded, Hamas can’t be funded, the Houthis can’t be funded, like the Shia crescent falls and then you have nothing but regional domination for Israel.”
Kulinski also attacked the Make America Great Again movement, calling it “an imperialist fascist death cult.” He added, “It’s time to take them down.”
Canary Mission, an antisemitism watchdog, said the comments reflected what it described as growing hostility toward the United States on the political left.
“Kyle Kulinski’s speech at Progressive Victory’s online rally attended by prominent DSA and Democratic politicians indicates the hateful and anti-American ideas proliferating on the left,” a Canary Mission spokesperson said.
“Support for terrorist regimes and historical revisionism has no place in American politics,” the spokesperson continued. “This level of extremism must be distanced from the Democratic Party.”
Progressive Victory did not distance itself from Kulinski’s remarks. Benjamin Gilbert-Lif, the group’s deputy executive director, told Fox News Digital, “we stand by the comments made by Kyle Kulinski” and said they reflected the views of the organization’s community and Jewish members of its national leadership.
“We also question why anyone would consider the idea of a ‘Jewish State’ to be anything other than an explicit desire for an ethno-state,” Gilbert-Lif said. He added that Progressive Victory supports a secular, one-state democracy where Israelis and Palestinians would coexist without borders or legal preferences based on ethnicity.
Sarah Drory, a spokesperson for Khanna, said, “Ro Khanna has always believed America is an exceptional country and was not on at the time these remarks were made.” She said Khanna “joined for 5 minutes to speak and left” and “he obviously disagrees with them.”
Fox News Digital sought comments from Bush, El-Sayed, Chevalier and Piker.
Oliver Larkin, a progressive Democrat running for Congress in Florida who helped organize the event, said the call raised $40,000 for 20 progressive anti-war candidates. He also accused Congress of failing to challenge what he called the “dangerous, lawless Trump administration.”