Someone on X regretted not coming up with the term "trickle-down stupidity" first, responding to the New York Post's framing of a podcast critic's comments on homeschooling as some kind of scandal. The phrase sticks because it captures something real: stupidity at the top doesn't stay there, it cascades. Works for policy, governance, parenting, culture. The fact that this is being treated as a political attack rather than just an observation about how ideas spread tells you everything.