Your post reminds me of the Tom Kratman book “Caliphate”.
The background story in the book is the Muslims attack the USA with seven nuclear bombs in seven different cities. Four of them fail to properly detonate and they cause minimal damage.
But three cities get nuked.
And the lefty-libs in the four cities where the nukes failed suddenly make a hard right turn. They realize their Muslim “friends” wanted to kill them and suddenly it’s a whole new world for them.