It always saddens me when I hear things like this. The internet is great but it has also emboldened peddlers of bigotry, misogyny, racism, and all forms of hate. And too often, this hate spills over into places which have no relation to insults, slurs, threats, and other vile behaviour.
I have nothing but respect for EarlG and anyone else who has to put up with this. I work in the computer gaming industry and while I'm not part of the customer support team, I've seen some of the crap they've had to deal with. And that's not even for anything close to political. I can't imagine how many orders of magnitude worse it is for EarlG and crew, as well as anyone else who's in a similar position or even just running their own site or has to deal with hate disguised as "reviews".