Four days after it was signed into law, Donald Trump’s absurdly named Big Beautiful Bill (also referred to as the BBB) seems to represent everything that has gone wrong in American politics.

There is the blatant, cartoonish plutocracy: the law makes no bones about the fact that it’s robbing the poorest Americans blind — kicking millions off their health insurance, cutting food aid for millions more, and endangering rural hospitals and nursing homes — to hand thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest.

There is the US political system’s ever-growing distance from the actual public opinion it’s meant to channel: the BBB was desperately unpopular when it passed, even more so when people learned what was actually in it, and the Republican lawmakers who all ended up voting for it had to endure months of irate constituents yelling at them about it.