I don't know why the ERA mods were caught off-guard with the reaction to McCain's death by the community. Given that this is a community that feels being a centrist/independent is just a step below being a full blown, shaved headed Nazi, their reaction to his death is entirely in line with how that community is. This not to say McCain does not deserve some criticism for his politics, but the dancing on his grave and sheer glee some are having makes you think McCain was someone like fucking Richard Spencer.
If this is how ERA reaction to someone like McCain dying, the forum is going to be a trash bin fire (more so than it already is) when GWB and Trump dies