Dolores Umbridge
I wonder what the trumpers would say if the murderer comes out and said he committed the crime in the name of Trump. Would this scare off some of them or embolden others to do the same.
They would find a way to justify it. Claim the victim deserved it, or the murderer was secretly a liberal. The Trumpers I know are already over the shock of Jan 6th – they’ve convinced themselves it was antifa, or being exaggerated by Democrats for political purposes (only a few people went into the capitol, the Trump supporters were peaceful protestors), etc. They will not accept anything negative about Trump or his followers, and there’s no reason to believe a murder would change that.
Kneeling not required, I’m positive they’d kiss his anus like mouth with equal passion and truth be told his acolytes cannot kneel anywhere near an American flag even if it’s tattooed on their favorite ass.
Also, the party “National Committees” are really more like fundraising and event/messaging coordination clearinghouses, in effect at the service of the campaigns of the candidates (President and/or of the Congressional leadership, depending of who’s in office and when in the cycle we are); and the 56 or so state/territorial parties are not subordinate to the “National Committee” for purposes of who joins or runs.