Does the Most Equal Comrade take the Left's entire Great Leveling Project down with him?

Daren Jonescu at the American Thinker does not subscribe to the view - put forth most forthrightly by Charles Krauthammer - that the MEC's crash-and-burn signals the end of American liberalism.  Jonescu makes an interesting case, using the Left's abandonment of Stalin when his monstrousness could no longer be ignored, that the ideology always trumps idolization for the Left.  The Left is perfectly willing to eat its own.

In a paragraph only parenthetically tied to his overall point, Jonescu gives us a comprehensive review of what was known, but impolite to mention, about the MEC circa 2008:

Communist childhood mentors?  Don't go there.  Boasting in print about his university penchant for Marxism and his heavy drug use?  Well, all students are "idealists" and "party-goers."  Explicit statements declaring fully socialized medicine his long-term goal?  Surely he's learned now that Washington is about compromise.  Long personal, professional, and political association with Bill Ayers -- terrorist, avowed communist revolutionary, advocate of Marxist re-education camps, and education "reformer"?  But he says Ayers was just a guy from his neighborhood, and his word should be good enough for us.  Refusing to release his school records?  So what? -- the man has a Harvard law degree.  Spending years in the church of a radical anti-American preacher?  How dare anyone question a man's relationship with his God?  Communist Party endorsement and campaign support?  Well, people are free to support whomever they want -- that's no reflection on the candidate himself.  Criticizing the U.S. Constitution's focus on "negative liberties," and its failure to address what government "must do on your behalf" to bring about "economic" and "redistributive" justice?  That's just abstract theoretical discussion, proving that Obama is a thinker.  "Fundamental transformation" and "spread the wealth around"?  Oh, come on, you know what he meant -- just more optimism and a fairer tax code.

All of the above concerns were raised in dark corners during Obama's 2008 primary and general election campaigns.  And all of those corresponding rebuttals were offered, with almost perfect unanimity, by the mainstream voices of both major parties. 

Now, of course, the bloom is off the rose for what may be a critical mass of the media apparatus.  No president, even one like the MEC, can recover, at least not fully, from what his transpiring for him.

Jonescu predicts a timeline for the intelligensia, the media, and the Left's home party to rush to Hillary and set about rehabilitating her from the Benghazi scandal.

I'm still thinking about this. It occurs to me that, in the case of, say, Stalin, the worldwide left was observing a different kind of country.  The Soviet Union had been a communist dictatorship for about a decade by the time Stalin solidified his power.  The United States in 2013 has an entirely different background.  The Left's advance through the institutions of our society has not had a lot of interruption, to be sure, but conservatism, and the basic American cherishing of freedom from which it emerged, has proven its determination to resist that trend.

So at least right now, I'm more inclined to see it Krauthammer's way.  I'm willing to consider the possibility that that is so because it is a brighter possibility, but the American people, who by and large still have a love of liberty coarsing through their veins, are disillusioned with more than just the current icon of the collectivist enterprise.