content: It's never at any point in history meant anything beyond "people the government doesn't like". Russians called Ukrainians terrorists, Ukrainians called Russians terrorists, British called Americans terrorists, Prussians called the Austrohungarians terrorists, Vietnamese called Americans terrorists, that one crazy Lt. Gov from Texas called people who publicly supported renewable energy "domestic terrorists".  We just gloss over that whole part between the Treaty of Versailles and the German invasion of Poland. It's embarrassing because Hitler got all of those special powers to "fight terrorism".    I'm shocked Americans suck at reading our history books.