Americans resist because they are Americans. The people who left the rest of the world to come here, came because there was something inside them that made them not only adventurous and rebellious, but risk takers.
As one Italian-American I know said, “It wasn’t the comfortable who came to America. It was those who embraced risk for a better life.”
This country was not founded on safety. It was founded on risk. Although the left is trying mightily to turn everyone into a quivering jelly cossetted in welfare and insipid slogans.