Logic makes sense, and indeed, no one could as much as subjectively "make sense" of anything if it was not for them relying on at least a distortion of reason, though they are metaphysically and epistemologically reliant on logic whether or not they are totally oblivious to this. However, what is true in itself without hinging on anything else as logical axioms are cannot possibly be a mental construct, or a mere perception, or a characteristic of the natural world. Moreover, what a person believes about logic can be incorrect. Logic itself cannot be. It could still be the case that actual logical truths with their intrinsic necessity would strike many non-rationalists as if they do not make sense. This is solely due to their own delusion, which they could avoid at any time by freeing themselves from philosophical negligence or assumptions by looking to reason.
Logical axioms are, after all, self-evident, so to neglect or deny them is the supreme irrationality, since they are the supreme reality. For example, if contradictions were possible (and they cannot be), this would mean that the idea that contractions are impossible is false, which means the "possibility" of contradictions itself contradicts the concept of one idea logically excluding another, so that one being true still contradicts the other and thus excludes it from being true. Contradictions cannot be true either way. Also, if nothing is true, this itself is true, making it logically impossible for nothing to be true (though only logic itself has to be true). I tend to focus on how it is impossible for nothing to logically follow from a given idea or for what does logically follow from something to be false, as this would once again require the very thing that is supposedly false to be true, but there are multiple axioms, self-evident necessary truths at the very foundation of reality.
These necessary truths ground the others (such as the fact that there is no contradiction in the existence of fire, or that the existence of God does not require that love is morally good) and are true prior to all abstract and concrete examples of other things. The laws of logic are supreme truth and thus bring absolute certainty since a person could only misunderstand or reject them by literally relying on their inherent truth. Rationalism is not a mental tool used to selectively make subjective sense of other things. It is a philosophy that could only be true, the only one this could be true of (for all other necessarily true philosophies are true because rationalism is) and that a person must hold to for the right reasons to even be capable of true knowledge of anything at all, knowledge of reason itself included. To the degree that someone both makes no assumptions and recognizes/believes in logically necessary truths starting with axioms, they are rational, rationalistic. Anyone else is deluded or stupid simply because they have never grasped reason despite how they are only able to stumble around in their stupidity because of it.
They can go about their lives only dwelling, through the lens of assumptions at that, menial, practical, or socially popular things, always neglecting pure reason so that they would be puzzled or terrified if someone else was to bring it up to them (though no one needs social prompting to discover logical axioms and other necessary truths [1]). They could get by without ever realizing to the slightest extent that logic is a set of necessary truths independent of all else, the falsity of which still entails its veracity so that it is true in itself, upon which the nature and very possibility of all other things depends. The very beginnings of turning to such abstract matters is already to them so foreign that they would, by virtue of not presently knowing the inherent truth and thus absolute certainty of logical axioms, have no way to even know that they are philosophically lost; they could only believe one way or another on the basis of assumptions.
To dismiss or deny reason, any non-rationalist must stand on reason, for they could not exist unless this was logically possible or logically necessary. To dismiss or deny reason in their asinine beliefs, they must rely on reason, as if there is logically necessary truth in logic being allegedly untrue, trivial, or unknowable--all of which require that it is still true! A grand irony is that it is absolutely possible for someone to be so stupid that they forever conflate the subjective belief or perception that something makes sense to them with the laws of logic themselves, going their whole life in extreme, genuine passivity and ideological superficiality to the point that they never even think about the laws of logic to reach the point of erroneous beliefs regarding them, or going their whole life in fierce, explicit denial of absolute certainty and the only necessary truths that could and do ground it. It is not the human mind, the natural world, or God itself that is the center of reality that could not be any other way. Only reason has this status, the laws of logic that are inherently true and therefore, though this is not self-evident, would have to exist in the absence of all other things.
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