Lessenberry: Doug Jones more important than Dow Jones

Lessenberry: Doug Jones more important than Dow Jones

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Several years ago, Jim Hightower, a witty former Texas agricultural commissioner who sometimes bills himself as “America’s Favorite Populist,” gave a speech in Southfield, a major Detroit suburb, and I was asked to introduce him. Mr. Hightower, one of the last Democrats to win statewide office in Texas, told me he asked a waitress that morning if she knew about all the new jobs the economy was supposedly creating.