Shortly before 2:30 this afternoon, House Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; if all goes according to plan, the bill will be on President Donald Trump’s desk by midweek, leaving him plenty of time to sign it before Christmas at Mar-a-Lago. There, finally free from the shackles of having to lie about the effects of the legislation on his net worth, he’ll presumably brag to paying members about making out like a bandit. But though the eventual passage of the bill will undoubtedly thrill the ex-beauty pageant owner, corporate America, and the very wealthy whom it was designed to disproportionally benefit, the day will truly belong to one man: Paul Ryan, who has been dreaming about this historic transfer of wealth since he developed what would become a lifelong, unremitting crush on Ayn Rand. The House Speaker is so amped about the prospect of passing tax “reform” that in honor of today’s vote—which, oops, they’ll have to redo on Wednesday—he apparently had an intern put together a sizzle reel highlighting his many urgent calls for tax cuts spanning nearly 20 years in office:

The video provides startling documentation not only the evolution of Ryan’s hairline, but also his craven fixation on lower taxes as an all-purpose solution to literally any set of economic conditions. When Ryan’s ghoulish, Eddie Munster-esque visage first appears in the clip, in 1998, the economy was booming, and the unemployment rate was heading toward 4 percent. When he reappears in 2008, the economy is in the toilet and unemployment is skyrocketing. In both cases, Wisconsin’s native son knows what he must do: cut taxes. It’s the same policy he suggests in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, and 2017. The suits change color, and the haircut becomes less embarrassing, but Ryan’s shamelessness does not. Close your eyes and listen to the former Tortilla Coast waiter on C-SPAN railing about the tax system “punishing the qualities that make America great,” and try to place the year. You can’t. It’s timeless.

Ryan, of course, does not care about any of this, first because—despite convincing many an American that he’s some kind of policy wonk—he’s not very bright, and second because, like Trump, he’s desperate to pass something, even if that something addresses none of the issues he’s harped on for years. For every loophole the bill supposedly closes, it opens another dozen. Americans will not, in fact, be able to file their returns “on a postcard.” And as for “keeping an eye on economic growth,” experts have said that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will produce nowhere near the type of growth Ryan & Co. have promised. (The exception being Steve Mnuchin, whose one-page report on the plan economists have described as “pathetic.”)

Shortly before today’s vote, Ryan, who inherited the bulk of his wealth from his wife, was asked whether he had “any concerns” about the fact that the bill is “deeply unpopular.” His response: “No concerns whatsoever. I got to say, if people are out there on TV telling mistruths, disguising the facts of this thing, that’s going to make it unpopular.” In fact, what makes the bill unpopular is what it does; according to a recent survey by Democratic advocacy group Priorities U.S.A., in a poll of more than 12,000 voters across 20 House districts, Republican approval ratings fell an average of three points after they were “ exposed to ads about the tax plan.“ That may have something to do with the fact that the bill overwhelmingly benefits corporations and the super, ultra rich; or that it does wonders for real-estate investors specifically; or that in 2027, half of all Americans can expect to pay more in taxes than they are now and that, coincidentally, many of those people “tend to be lower and middle-class folks.” For Hayek’s sake, not even Fox Business anchor and frequent Fox New contributor Trish Regan is buying what Ryan and his colleagues are selling.