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I don't think it's just that recent. Appealing to "common sense" has always implied that there's a true way of evaluating the situation that is just obvious without the need to think about it. It's about going with your first reactions and thinking no further. That is quite clearly a reactionary tendency and it has always been a driver of conservative politics. After all, what's "just obvious" is not a magical intuition but, more often than not, what aligns with the dominant ideology that you have absorbed unconsciously and hold to unquestioningly. And not questioning the dominant ideology but demanding people fall in line is an inherently conservative way to live.