If you earn, the people will claim it is his money. Or her money. For whatever reasons. If you learn something, they claim I stole it. Just by learning something with the efforts and abilities that they do not possess.
My money is mine not his. I do not work hard and earn for them. My hard labor fruits will not be stolen by her.
My knowledge is not his even if it's math. Even because of my origin. Even with my 'speed' of solving problems. Even with his image of me.
If they stole his comments, they stole his identity.
You can support an individual as a politician even if he is a distasteful idiot. You do not hire him for his personality. You hire him for his work.
The more power he has, the more distasteful he becomes. No one likes the family of the presidents. Yet you'd support him for his work.