Precisely.
A wiser FReeper than me opined in 2008 that Obama might well be the last gasp of the radical 60s leftists, because he will demonstrate to them in no uncertain terms the emptiness of their ideology.
The great risk is that he will feel unbound, set free from his base.
Imagine, for instance, what he could do with his Pardon Pen.
And the great risk for us is, "Who do we replace him with?"
Their malady is untreatable with logic or with experience to which they are immune. In fact leftist do not need education but Reformation, a new birth.