"Trickle down" is a great scam, for it is clear that money spent and respent to drive a healthy economy trickles up. This is why stimulus money should be injected among the people that have greatest needs. But the rich balk at giving "those people" any means to improving their lot.

I am wondering how, in the trickling metaphor, people like Trump are the "up" and decent, poorer people are the "down." Does not that language itself arouse suspicion about the postulates?