Do I Take Xanax For This?

Anyone else bristle when their political views are smeared as a mental illness? Criticize political Islam - that makes you an Islamophobe. Oppose same-sex marriage? You are a homophobe.

Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, ever on the edge of forensic psychology, has identified a new disorder:

If this was a dispute about policy, of course, Republicans would be willing to pursue alterations. ...

But the Affordable Care Act has become to the right a symbolic totem that has little to do with actual policies. Its very existence is an enduring emotional wound. ...

The GOP is operating not on the basis of some analysis of public policy but from a sheer pathology.

Does everyone understand that? A willingness to merely alter Obamacare is a sign that you are concerned about policy. But, if you support the full repeal of Obamacare, you are pathological - i.e., mentally disturbed due to an emotional wound.