Credit...The New York Times By Frank Bruni Frank Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. Around 8 p.m. on Friday — when there was no discernible wind, no rain, no lightning, nothing like that — all the lights in my house in Chapel Hill, N.C., died, and I looked outside to see my entire neighborhood in darkness.

I immediately suspected the election. That’s not because I’m paranoid.

(Well, maybe a bit.) It’s because of all the twists, turns ...