Some crimes and criminals are so extreme that the revulsion is experienced on the whole political spectrum.

That is the case with a person who calls himself “Commander Butcher,” a neo-Nazi activist who plotted to poison Jewish children in Brooklyn, N.Y., with candy.

The candy-poisoning plot was cooked up with an undercover FBI agent and did not come close to execution. Attributed to the influence of this same individual are a murder that was carried out in Nashville and the stabbing of five people in Turkey.

It’s unfortunate that a mere 40 years is the maximum prison term available for Michail Chkhikvishvili, someone who contributes to the pernicious revival of one of the world’s most odious ideologies.

According to the Associated Press last week, Chkhikvishvili urged an undercover FBI

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