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This was sent to me by a close friend:

I’m sure we are all happy about the election results. Trump will finally get something he has probably never experienced in his entire life... accountability. But the high profile loses in the Senate, especially Texas, governor in Florida, etc., have led many in the media to proclaim there was not a blue wave. But here are some facts that belie that from other media sources that looked beyond these losses:

This was the largest gain (currently 28, may reach 35) in the House of Representatives for Democrats since the election after Watergate. And this came in spite of the fact of 30 years of extensive Republican gerrymandering of districts and outright voter suppression to exclude Democrats.

Over 100 women were elected to the House, a new record.

During the Obama years Dems lost over 1000 thousand legislative seats across the country. They regained over a third of that loss on Tuesday.

And if you look at who voted for who in the Senate races, overall 57% of voters voted for a Democrat candidate vs. 43% for a Republican candidate. But Republicans still picked up seats. The Senate is structurally a very undemocratic institution and was set up that way by our slaveholding founders, for among other reasons, in order to get everyone on board to form the US in the first place. State legislatures elected senators until the 17th amendment to the constitution mandating direct elections by the people took effect in 1913. Keep in mind that a senator from Wyoming who represents fewer than 300,000 people has as much power as a senator from California who represents 20 million people.

So, even more to celebrate than you might have thought.