Cynical off-the-cuff answer: Because the people who say that are rich, and the right believes that being rich is correlated with also being X, for all desirable values of X. (In this case, "smarter than normal people, such that if they say things that sound weird I should believe them anyway".)
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Date: 2019-04-16 10:51 pm (UTC)