Rising Trumpworld star May Mailman has publicly mocked what she called “Meghan Markle syndrome”—and accused the Duchess of Sussex of manufacturing trauma in service of success.
Mailman, a close lieutenant of MAGA ideologue Stephen Miller whose focus until she left the administration last month was on attempting to wipe out DEI in U.S. universities, delivered the extraordinary salvo in a podcast with the New York Times.
Markle has long served as a useful rhetorical target for those who deplore what they see as the politics of self-victimhood and grievance.
However, Mailman’s assault carries institutional weight given that the 37-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer was the architect of the Trump administration’s offensive against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on university campuses.