Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz has created a persona for himself as one of his party’s most divisive figures. According to columnistDexter Filkins, Gaetz has come to embody “the new Republican creed of doing whatever it took, and laying waste to whatever it took, to ensure that Donald Trump would survive and succeed.” Filkins writes that Gaetz has helped make Congress even more dysfunctional than it already was. But the more he “tears down,” the more his supporters love him. Speaking to Filkins, a friend of Gaetz’s and a former Congress staffer who the writer didn’t name, said that the congressma…