This is a concern and hopefully Gaetz is more forward thinking. I don’t think that the real conservatives like him can just “appoint” the replacement. There are procedures and timing involved to get to the end game. For all we know, the new speaker candidate(s) have been identified and this might take more than zero days to play out...
Let’s wait to see what happens and then judge Gaetz - who everyone here should admit has huge cojones...