In my neighborhood, Matt Gaetz would be what is known as an insufferable prick. He is Fitzgerald rich, which is to say,
...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Gaetz has lived a life where he could always get out of whatever trouble he caused, or was in, after making glib explanations. This left him believing it was his quick wit that did the trick, when all along it was just the money. A lot of politicians, if not most, become rich in office. It's always amusing to watch a wealthy person enter politics. The fortunate ones never get elected. Those who do enter office quickly discover they are in a very different world. They go from an environment where everything is tailored to their needs and desires, to a place filled with people who do not have any great inclination to cooperate.
This was Donald Trump's greatest shock. He had never been forced to deal with people who didn't want to do it his way. No matter how wealthy a person maybe, their world is rather small. The number of people they must see everyday is a fairly small group, and they get to choose who gets in the group. They go from ruler of their universe to a guy with a credit score or 400, sitting across the desk from a car dealer's finance manager, in the blink of an eye. Nothing has prepared them for an work space where money no longer has the power it once wielded.
As I said, the fortunate ones never get elected.