Political intuition means swift synthesis of disparate facts toward an end

Evidence

Divergence, in the meantime, between political intuition and aesthetic, lyric or artistic intuition; only by metaphor does one speak of the art of politics. Political intuition is not expressed through the artist, but through the “leader”; and “intuition” must be understood to mean not “knowledge of men”, but swiftness in connecting seemingly disparate facts, and in conceiving the means adequate to particular ends—thus discovering the interests involved, and arousing the passions of men and directing them towards a particular action. The “expression” of the “leader” is his “action” (in a positive or a negative sense, of launching or preventing a particular action, which is consistent or inconsistent with the end which one wishes to attain). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines political intuition against artistic intuition as swiftness in connecting disparate facts toward chosen ends, expressed through action rather than art.
• XREF: Toolkit concept: political leadership as action-expression connects forward to ideology/hegemony theory and to how modern propaganda figures ‘read’ and mobilize masses. — connects to: Progress and Doom beliefs both disable genuine political understanding; Dissolving certainty may usher a fully political era rather than politics’ end — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 441
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942