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Representative Matt Gaetz is one of the most outspoken critics of the status quo in Washington, which he demonstrated most recently by playing a key role in removing fellow-Republican Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. How was Gaetz able to pull off such a feat given his deep unpopularity in Congress, and the fact that he\u2019s under a House Ethics Committee investigation for the sex trafficking of a minor? The New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins, who recently profiled Gaetz in the magazine, joins Tyler Foggatt to explore the congressman\u2019s motivations, including how fractured party politics have played a role in his rise to fame. \u201cThe party has to decide what it is,\u201d Filkins says. \u201cIt\u2019s not what it used to be, and it\u2019s rapidly becoming something else. . . . In the interregnum, we\u2019re seeing all these morbid symptoms as the party kind of convulses and tries to figure out its new identity.\u201d