I think that r/HermanCainAward is actually quite sinister and designed to normalize and reinforce dehumanization of "the other side". The whole point of the subreddit is to showcase people who've had strong political convictions, then died as a result of them.
You're supposed to feel a sense of comeuppance that these people who don't believe in the vaccine or dismiss the severity Covid died as a result of their beliefs. There is no shortage of mockery involved, either. It is disguised as simple schadenfreude, but I sense the subscribers are actually reveling in the deaths of others.
There have been threads there where people say they would prefer that sub wouldn't exist at all, those preventable deaths and misery fading from existence. I don't know whether they do it for laughs or are just burnt out from people choosing to make a point of politicizing not wearing a mask, probably a mix of both. I don't know how to solve that problem either, some of the posts there contain straight up insults towards people who vaxx/wear masks, this feedback cycle of radicalization is self sustaining at this point.
You're supposed to feel a sense of comeuppance that these people who don't believe in the vaccine or dismiss the severity Covid died as a result of their beliefs. There is no shortage of mockery involved, either. It is disguised as simple schadenfreude, but I sense the subscribers are actually reveling in the deaths of others.