Tunisia's ruler of the past 17 years, Zeineddine Ben Ali, has twice crushed challengers, but these lightweight rivals were carefully vetted, and forced to play on a steeply tilted field.
This empowered the Saudis and their fellow royals to jail and torture dissidents, crush all challengers and shut down any possibility of political change, most recently in Bahrain in 2011.
As Cuomo showed in 2010, he is now an effective performer on the stump, and he has amassed about thirty-three minlion dollars in campaign donations — an enormous sum for a local politician — which he won't hesitate to use in order to crush potential challengers, from the left as well as from the right.
The irony of the RNC effort is that, as things stand, Trump would probably crush any challenger and might even appear strengthened as a result.
Thatcher seems vulnerable to a Labour challenge, but is rock solid within her own party, having recently crushed a challenger.
For 24 days and 13 games, across seven cities, two countries and three time zones, the Knicks have crushed every challenger, obliterated every obstacle, eradicated all doubts and left little to prove in the fleeting days of this revitalizing season.
In a few cases, if tradition holds, entrenched incumbents will quietly crush long-shot challengers and go on about their business.
But I am saying that this was entirely predictable - and that this is exactly what the Democratic Party gets when it uses its top-down Beltway and Colorado Establishments to crush progressive primary challengers.
He had crushed his top challengers twice on mountain stages.
