The Biden administration has made combating domestic extremism a top priority, warning that white supremacist and other far-right extremists pose the most significant threat to the country. To many, especially those who study history, that admission was too long in coming. For decades, there have been warning signs that white supremacist and anti-government beliefs were spreading and that the violence associated with those beliefs was growing.

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