"it simply either isn't palatable to the public ear to proclaim they're going by intuition alone, or involve proposals so complex that our intuition just can't

"it simply either isn't palatable to the public ear to proclaim they're going by intuition alone, or involve proposals so complex that our intuition just can't evaluate them - they need an academic foundation to stand on." Complex proposals that the public can't evaluate are more typically a way of pulling the wool over the public's eyes. If the public were against "economic intuition" on principle then Trump would likely have lost Michigan on the basis of his opposition to the TPP, which most economists supported.