Successful performance at what? Running the country into the ground? That's what our political "experts" have been doing for the last Century. I'd gladly replace Congress (all of them), along with their thousands of lackeys, lickspittles, and hangers-on with a random assortment of truck drivers, ditch diggers, miners, engineers, bartenders, businessmen, and farmers. Throw out all the lawyers and political scientists ... they've proven their negative worth.
We put a businessman in the White House, despite his opponents on the left whining and moaning that he had no "(political) experience". That seems to be turning out reasonably well ...