un-American

un-American
   American
   differing from an accepted or assumed standard
   Originally, in 1844, used to deride the Know Nothing movement. Subsequent political use of any opponent with whose philosophy you disagree, especially by Senator Joseph McCarthy:
    They'd be branded for ever as un-American. (N. Mitford, 1960, writing about those who resisted McCarthy's attacks)

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