I'm really sick of the phrase "feels vs. reals," where "reals" is understood to mean "I go with my gut."
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i think it's more "personal experience is an important consideration in policy debate" vs typically right-leaning reactionaries here
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though many of the right-leaning reactionaries lean on their own experience in similar ways as the far-left (the MRA for example)
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The paleoconservative appeal to "Common Sense" seems to parallel this drek.
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Where "Common Sense" generally means "whatever I was raised to believe."
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It doesn't mean that, it just means whatever you want to believe.
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We call it "feels vs. alternative reals" now.
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It's a standard fascism tactic. Only You can dispense the Real Truth. Everything else including proven scientific data is malarkey.
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Essentially it seems to boil down to "the only real lived experience is of white straight males because that's my peer group" every time.
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