Suzanne Harrington: Florida politics and Succession - is life imitating art?

"It’s like watching a terrible time-travel movie, where ordinary people are being dragged backwards to an era long consigned to the history books."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during convocation at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va., Friday, April 14, 2023. (Paige Dingler/The News & Advance via AP)

As Succession ends tonight – a dystopian nightmare in which unfettered, unaccountable billionaires wreck America for their own gain – down in Florida, life continues to imitate art. Through media control and manipulation, the Succession kids have put a white supremacist in the White House; down in Florida, Elon Musk would like to do the same.

Except unlike in Florida, the amoral characters of Succession are sophisticated, sharp, savvy, even as their stunted inner lives resemble a series of catastrophic mid air collisions involving their own private jets.