Yesterday’s midterms were many things: a referendum on Trump; a “rebellion” in the suburbs; a revolt by an angry Democratic base; and part of a historical trend that sees the opposition party make significant gains in the midterms following the presidential election. None of them were great for the GOP.

The Democrats are currently forecast to win the House popular vote by 6.9 percentage points. That’s a bigger margin than the GOP won in Obama’s 2010 “shellacking,” which saw Republicans dominate state houses, governor’s mansions, and congress for years. Democrats took at least 26 seats in the House and gained seven governorships, while losing two seats in the senate in largely rural, Trump-voting states.

The fact that, even with this margin, the shift wasn’t greater — besides the Senate losses, Democrats flipped only six state legislative chambers, less than the average of twelve since 1900, and way behind the twenty-four flipped by the GOP eight years ago — is a testament to the anti-democratic electoral system crafted by the founders and exacerbated by GOP gerrymandering.