Obama leaves behind a weakened Democratic Party

The facts:

• Since Obama's election, Democrats have lost 62 House seats and 9 Senate seats.
• As a result, Trump enters office with full control of Congress and the ability to tilt the Supreme Court conservative for years to come.
• It's worse at the state level: there are 12 fewer states with Democratic governors and as many as 900 fewer Democrats holding state-level offices.
• Republicans now control 68 out of 98 partisan legislative chambers in the country — an all-time high.

What's next:

This might not be rock bottom for Democrats. In 2018, of the 33 Senate seats up for re-election, 23 are presently held by Democrats, and many of them in Trump Country.