prologue

“If past is prologue, I would expect that there’s room for some modest improvements in this area,” said Elliot Haspel, a senior fellow at Capita, a family policy think tank.

As they say, past is prologue, history rhymes, all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again, etc.

“If past is prologue, those are just words.”

“He was so confident that the girl he knew wouldn’t leave,” Lenz writes in the prologue.

Because the past is so often prologue, Trump has tried his damnedest to keep us from connecting the dots between what he did last time and what he intends to do this time if he ends up on the short end of the electoral vote.