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Last May, Attorney General Merrick Garland told a Senate hearing that “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” posed the most dangerous domestic threat to the United States. And to make sure the lawmakers knew exactly who he was talking about, Garland added: “Specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.”

A month later, the Biden administration unveiled a national strategy to fight the nation’s white supremacist and nationalist militia groups, requesting Congress provide the Justice Department more than $100 million to hire more investigators, intelligence analysts and prosecutors. The administration also sought more resources for the State Department to investigate ties between American white supremacist groups and the growing number of neo-Nazi organizations in Europe and Russia. 

But nearly a year later, the ad…