Actually if Gaetz is expelled, it would free him up for his gubernatorial campaign, as well as giving him valid issues to run on. Namely against the swamp.
Yeah, I don’t think expelling him is going to make him a nonentity like the establishment thinks. Any more than stealing the election from Trump was the last they heard of him.
Making someone a martyr is usually counterproductive, but if you “martyr” them without actually killing them, it’s even more counterproductive because they can come back to haunt you again and again and again.