If there’s one salient feature of the 2024 election cycle, it’s that rich people—rich men, particularly, and even more particularly ones who support Donald Trump’s reelection campaign—fell for things at a previously unimaginable rate. Separate from simply supporting Trump or advancing right-wing talking points, they promoted ideas and stories that almost no reasonable person could possibly believe: cartoonish lies, absurd leaps of logic, and clearly fake documents.
Tbf, intelligence helps:-).
But yeah, definitely not a guarantee - see e.g. Ivermectin.
It seems more like emotional agility is the more primary key - a willingness to look (inwards, outwards, at others, at the world, and accept what one sees).