Rather, it is instead a textbook example of how public figures that are supported by a group suddenly become incapable of fault.
Instead of letting the legal system of Sweden play out (you know, like Snowden had been trying to fight for with his leaks against the FISA Court), Assange's supporters simply declare that this is some vast world conspiracy against Assange, or that it wasn't really "rape" anyways, and even much more misogynistic things.
In addition all the contradictory evidence against that hypothesis simply gets glossed over. E.g. the extradition thing makes no sense, and never made any sense. Assange was being processed through courts in the U.K. while avoiding Swedish justice, and the U.K. is hardly knowing for making it difficult to extradite suspects to the U.S.!
If Assange was worried about extradition to the U.S. he should have fled from the U.K. ASAP. Given that wasn't what he did, he must have been more worried about something different (perhaps the veracity of the charges of which he was accused?). And either way, as mentioned in a sibling comment, the U.S. would actually have to charge him with something for extradition to apply, and those charges would have to come within the statute of limitations (and perhaps even within a shorter timeframe for whatever country Assange flees to).