Lessons from Tai Everyone that knows Katherine Tai was excited for her nomination to become U.S. Trade Representative and were confident in her confirmation. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today by a vote of 98 to 0, the only one of President Biden’s Cabinet officers to achieve unanimous support from an often bitterly divided legislature. Unlike other nominees, she had no track record of ugly partisan tweets. Instead, she built a professional reputation based on intelligence and humility. It is a lesson that should be absorbed by many others in Washington. The political system is not broken but as Secretary of State Antony Blinken observed in a Nikkei interview, it sometimes doesn’t look very pretty and that provides succ...