'Succession' Makes Us Relive Trump's Presidential Election

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “America Decides.” Like so much of what happens within the episode, the title of “America Decides” is a lie. America does not decide the result of the presidential election dramatized within the installment. Kendall Roy decides. Well, so does Roman Roy. So do a bunch of Jeryd Mencken’s (Justin Kirk) most criminally enthusiastic followers. And so, for that matter, does Shiv Roy. Shiv spends much of this slow-motion tragedy arguing to her brothers, to Tom, to anyone who will listen,...