Corrections ought to be made more prominently in the media, particularly in this era of toxic distrust.

Alas, that's not why I start with a correction today. Normally, I'd tack it to the bottom, as if to say, "oh, by the way, no big deal."

The reason I do the noble thing instead today is that the correction lends itself to introducing a follow-up to Wednesday's column.

That essay analyzed the bid by Chris Jones, the creditable but inevitably drubbed Democratic candidate for governor two years ago, for national Democratic office. The point today is for me to harp once more on my recent theme, which some are starting to call an obsession.

It is that national Democrats simply are too impractically liberal if they ever intend to compete for electorally decisive white rural votes dominant over most of the nation's acreage.

Jones is running to become the vice chair at large of the Democratic National Committee. He says he wants to push for engaging rural voters, white and otherwise. He also is current co-chairman of the Dirt Road Democrats political action committee, emphasizing the same agenda.

He also is making a political play in Franklin County against Sarah Sanders' haughty and currently embattled edict--issued by blindside to the locals--to build a........

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