Happens all the time. Little shark eats a kingfish. My best story was a 100 lb. tarpon leaping out of the water at Bahia Honda bridge several years ago and a 400 lb. bull shark also leaping out of the water and cutting him in half in one bite.
We encouter the same thing in politics,they just eat our toes first and then work up to the main body,incrementalism,its what the left is all about.