I think some old opponents fled there in defeat

[Hortensis]

and, surprisingly, are missed by some who can't just leave them to their misery. And it is misery. I've dropped in there, and they're mostly very unhappy and depressed, moping about their failure and irrelevance, though that's not quite how they express it. Since the Democratic Party owning most of that they consider only their dreams is abject failure to them. and since their leader has continued on without them (sold out), they have very little to hang onto, just fantasies that Hillary will still be arrested. Or something.