Transatlantic Policy Revolutions USTR Katherine Tai evangelizes the Biden Administration’s worker-centric trade policy by emphasizing that change is hard. What makes it more difficult is that its emphasis on workers (read higher paid union workers) over consumers (e.g. everyone else) is contrarian politics. This is especially true in an inflationary environment since emphasizing higher pay only feeds the beast. A Politico article today characterized Tai as the point of the spear on this policy shift, but her position was reinforced by Deputy National Security Adviser Mike Pyle who acknowledged that trade is not central to Bidenomics.  While the Biden Administration tries to wean consumers off cheap goods, EU leaders are determi...