Did Chief Justice Roberts save the Supreme Court?

I just saw that there are plenty of articles about "Did Chief Justice Roberts save the Supreme Court?".

I find this completely absurd.  Apparently if the court ruled against the Affordable Care Act, the public would lose all support for the Supreme Court and the Obama administration would start working on ignoring the Supreme Court ruling and dismantling their power.

Even stranger, all of these articles and videos seem to have a Democratic slant, praising Roberts for saving the court.  And these same Democratic leaning pundits are positing that the Democrats would work on dismantling the court if they 'lost'.  I'm really shocked by that.  The Democrats got their Act upheld, albeit not in the manner they wanted, and their supporters say that "It's a good thing it happened like this because we would have ignored it if it went the other way."

Hopefully I'm reading too much into that....