Today is an unusually fitting date to ask what will happen the day after America’s presidential election — the first anniversary of Hamas’s savage attack that killed approximately 1,200 Israelis.

In the year since, the Middle East has been in even greater turmoil. Israel has declared war against Hamas and has emasculated Hezbollah, decapitating much of its leadership, including Hassan Nasrallah.

How that conflict plays out is not the focus of this column. Rather, it is this: Will this election have as grave and profound consequences for America and Americans as Oct. 7 had for Israel and its region?

Will America have elected its next president by Nov. 6? Will the election be contested as it was in 2020, when Donald Trump denied losing, calling the vote “rigged?” Will it resemble 2000, when the election dispute over Florida's vote went all the way to the Supreme Court, to be settled in mid-December? Will it be like the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, which wasn't settled until Mar. 2, three days before his inauguration, due to disputes over 20 electoral votes from Southern states?

Second, will there be violence? Will........

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