"And it's been borrowed repeatedly since." PM

To what intended purpose?
In what case has it ever succeeded for them?

Mac,
"Throw the bums out" is a long tenured war-cry at the election polls of our union.

The problem is; the secure seats, those that are very strongly (staunchly) Republican or strongly Democrat are fairly safe.
And they're the ones with the trouble-makers. The radicals that won't brook compromise.

Conversely the Congressional seats that can swing back and forth tend to be occupied by more moderate politicians.
THEY are the ones that get thrown out; leaving behind the radicals, the extremists.

I appreciate your fist-brandishing approach here. But unfortunately it's substantially ceremonial. The momentum of incumbency is quite difficult to overcome.

"Whenever you start posting dictionary quotes, we know you've been bested." captainkbt