"I can't imagine that Ds don't resent the fact that this utter incompetent and defective has jumped to the head of the line; surely they despise the clintons and their machine and will leap at an opportunity to stop what must be for them a nightmarish juggernaut."
BWA HA HA HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
Not even. Resent `em, hell! They think of the Clintons as their best chance!
I'm not so sure. Ickes doesn't think so. Geffen doesn't.
And how do you think Kerry and all those other prez wannabes who 'waited their turn' feel about the widebody cutting in?
I'll bet there are already multiple coups in the works.
I think what you say is true about a certain subdued subset of the rank and file. But the extreme left-wing ideologues (see Kos, see Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation) are strongly anti-hillary.