Several prominent Democrats were caught on camera participating in a progressive political video call which began with one speaker comparing America to a Nazi regime ruled by "dead-eye psychopaths" and "bloodthirsty imperialists."Participants on the call, which was hosted by Progressive Victory in March, included Rep.Ro Khanna, D-Calif., whose name has been floated as a possible presidential contender, and several Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidates, including Abdul El-Sayed, Cori Bush and Darializa Avila Chevalier.
A spokesperson for Khanna has since disavowed the speaker's comments and said Khanna was not on the call at the time the remarks were made.The virtual event, which also featured controversial streamer Hasan Piker, was titled "Choose Your Fighter" and was meant to highlight progressive politicians opposing the ongoing conflict in Iran.At the start of the call, organizers introduced left-wing podcaster Kyle Kulinski, who they called an "up and comer" in the movement.Kulinski launched into a diatribe in which he accused the U.S.
and Israel of "creating the fourth Reich."WATCH: HOUSE DEMS DODGE QUESTIONS ON SOCIALIST AGENDA THAT THREATENS TO ABOLISH KEY INSTITUTIONSFormer Democratic Missouri congresswoman and current candidate Cori Bush (left), Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed (center) and Rep.Ro Khanna (right), D-Calif., participated in a Progressive Victory rally which began with a speaker bashing America as a Nazi-type regime.
(Michael B.Thomas/Getty Images; Sarah Rice/Getty Images; Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"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 railed, adding, "It is absolutely accurate to compare these people to the worst criminals in history, to Mussolini, to Adolf Hitler."Kulinski claimed that "we have descended i...